four-legged emmet

English

Noun

four-legged emmet (plural four-legged emmets)

  1. (Cornwall) A newt.
    • 1972, David Watmough, Ashes for Easter & Other Monodramas, page 17:
      Don't you know about four-legged emmets? The green 'uns?
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