frogspawn n. jocularly, tapioca or similar starchy pudding. Editorial Note: The appearance of tapioca does very much resemble egg masses laid by amphibians. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
The adjectives canine and feline refer to dogs and cats. But how does English address other groups of animals? Plus, cabin fever has been around much longer than the current pandemic. That restless, antsy, stir-crazy feeling goes back to the days...
If someone urges you to spill the tea, they probably don’t want you tipping over a hot beverage. Originally, the tea here was the letter T, as in “truth.” To spill the T means to “pass along truthful information.” Plus...
Your earliest cite may be 1991, but the usage is much older – I first came across it in relation to the school dinners at grammar school in 1946!
Yes, of course. As I note on the about page (the equivalent to a print dictionary’s frontmatter), I do not make an exhaustive effort to track down the first cite ever for entries.