jan 1, 1507 - frog mug

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An earthernware vessel with a frog in the bottom, especially a drinking pot in the West Riding. I find no mention of the word in glossaries but antiques take the tradition back to the mid-nineteenth century at least. It may be much older: 1507 <i>I witt to Elesabeth Gascoigne … a grett massar wyth a frouche in the botdom</i>, York (YRS39/189). A spelling of ‘frog’ similar to this is listed in the OED, and as a dialect word in the EDD. Note: 1391 <i>cupam meam de murro cum pede argenti in the fronse in fundo cupæ</i>, York (SS4/157).

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