spitfrog

Lacklustre is strictly an adjective in the U.S., but it is acceptable as a noun for such a condition in England, where stick-jaw is gummy candy, a spitfrog is a small sword and a lockspit is a trench no wider than the tool it is dug with, used to mark (` lock ') the turf (` spit') either to assert a legal claim or to guide the diggers.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 1 1987

But an army is a beast that has a great belly, and must be fed: wherefore this will come to what pastures you have, and what pastures you have will come to the balance of property, without which the public sword is but a name or mere spitfrog.

The Commonwealth of Oceana James Harrington 1644