The Nautical Encyclopedia
Patterson’s Illustrated Nautical Encyclopedia — Howard Patterson, 1891

Johnny Crapaud

Sea Terms

A term applied to French seamen, meaning Johnny Toad. The armorial bearings of France once had three toads. which were exchanged for the three flowers-de-luce, and it is undoubtedly from the former that the jocose term was derived.

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