batrachian
(bəˈtreɪkiən)
adjective
1. of, like, or concerning frogs and toads
noun
2. a frog or toad
Maureen Dowd related some of the goings-on at Trump’s NYC courtcase, particularly the cross-examination of Stormy Daniels by Susan Necheles, one of Trump’s cadre of lawyers, and cites Aldous Huxley as the source of ‘batrachian’:
Necheles doggedly pursued this fruitless tack with Stormy, to her own and Trump’s detriment.
“You made all this up, right?” the lawyer pressed.
“No,” Stormy replied.
When Necheles kept pecking, noting that the actress, director and producer had starred in porn films with “phony stories about sex,” Stormy leveled her by slyly replying that if she had made up the story about her encounter with Trump, “I would have written it to be a lot better.” She also schooled Trump’s lawyer on the fact that “The sex is very real. That’s why it’s pornography and not a B movie.”
Trump came across as a loser in her account — a narcissist, cheater, sad Hugh Hefner wannabe, trading his satin pajamas for a dress shirt and trousers (and, later, boxers) as soon as Stormy mocked him. The man who was the likely source of the “Best Sex I Ever Had” tabloid headline, attributed to Marla Maples at the time, no doubt loathes Stormy for having described their batrachian grappling, as Aldous Huxley called sex, as “textbook generic.”