- a small animal with short legs, a long tail and cold blood, that lives both in water and on land (= is an amphibian)Topics Animalsc2Word Originlate Middle English: from an ewt (ewt from Old English efeta, of unknown origin), interpreted (by wrong division) as a newt.
Idioms
See newt in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary(as) pissed as a newt
- (British English, offensive, slang) very drunk
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