newt

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

newt [newt newts] BrE [njuːt] NAmE [nuːt] noun
a small animal with short legs, a long tail and cold blood, that lives both in water and on land (= is an ↑amphibian )
see (as) pissed as a newt at ↑pissed

Word Origin:
late Middle English: from an ewt (ewt from Old English efeta, of unknown origin), interpreted (by wrong division) as a newt.