toad
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English tode, toode, tadde, tade, from Old English *tāde, a shortened variant of Old English tādie, tādiġe (“toad”).
Cognate with Scots tade, taid, taed, ted (“toad”). Compare also Danish tudse (“toad”), possibly originally from the same prehistoric root; also Swedish tåssa, tossa (“toad”), Old English tāxe (“toad”), Old English tosca (“toad”) by contrast.
Inflected forms:
form: toads
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: tode
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: twoad
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
dialectal
form: toads
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: toading
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: toaded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: toaded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: tode
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: twoad
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
dialectal
Senses:
gloss: An amphibian, a kind of frog (order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae.
pos: noun
examples: Shortly he heard the trolls coming. They had a fiddler with them, and some began dancing, while others fell to eating the Christmas fare on the table - some fried bacon, and some fried frogs and toads, and other nasty things which they had brought with them.
1971, Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger & John Densmore, "Riders on the Storm", The Doors, L.A. Woman.
There's a killer on the road / His brain is squirmin' like a toad
gloss: A contemptible or unpleasant person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
gloss: An ugly person.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
gloss: To expel (a user) permanently from a MUD or similar system, so that their account is deleted.
pos: verb
tags: Internet
informal
transitive
Related words: amphibian
frog
frosh
frosk
paddock
tadpole
Derived words: African clawed toad
African common toad
African giant toad
African tree toad
Alajuela toad
Almirante Trail toad
Amargosa toad
American toad
Apennine yellow-bellied toad
Arizona toad
arroyo toad
Asian common toad
black toad
bombinator toad
burrowing toad
Canadian toad
cane toad
Central American toad
Colorado River toad
common toad
crucifix toad
European toad
fire-bellied toad spp.)
Fowler's toad
frog and toad
golden toad
Great Plains toad
green toad
Gulf Coast toad
guttural toad
hoptoad
horned toad
horny toad
Houston toad
marine toad
mephitic toad
midwife toad
Monte Verde toad
narrow-mouthed toad
North American toad
oak toad
obstetrical toad
obstetric toad
odious as a toad
orange toad
ornate horned toad
pebble toad
pode
red-spotted toad
red toad trillium
rush toad
sea toad
shelt-toad
shield-toad
Sonoran Desert toad
South American toad
southern toad
spadefoot toad
strange-horned toad
Surinam toad
Suriname toad
swelltoad
Texas toad
toad agama
toadback
toad bug
toadeater
toadeating
toadery
toadess
toadfish
toadflax
toad grass
toad-grass
toad-headed agama
toad in a hole
toad in the hole
toad-in-the-hole
toadish
toadless
toadlet
toadlike
toad lily
toadling
toadly
toadpole
toadroot
toad rush
toadship
toadskin
toad-spit
toadsticker
toadstone
toadstool
toad-strangler
toad trillium
toadwise
toady
Tonkin toad
tree toad
true toad
Urungu toad
walking toad
western toad
Woodhouse's toad
Wyoming toad
Yosemite toad
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