toad

See also: töad

English

Two common toads (Bufo bufo spinosus)

Alternative forms

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.

Pronunciation

Noun

toad (plural toads)

  2. An amphibian, a kind of frog (broad sense, order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae.
    Hypernyms: anuran, batrachian, frog (broad sense) < lissamphibian < amphibian < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature
    Coordinate terms: frog (narrow sense), salamander, newt
    • 1886, Peter Christen Asbj&oslash￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 149:
      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
    • 2026 June, John Craven, “This unsung, unpaid army of workers is vital for rural Britain”, in BBC Countryfile, number 243, page 21:
      Perhaps the largest number of volunteers — more than 33,000 of them — support the Wildlife Trusts on 2,600 nature reserves. But scattered around the country are smaller, specialist teams such as the Charlcombe Toad Rescue Group, near Bath. More than 50 volunteers wearing high-vis jackets and carrying torches and buckets spent 600 hours this year helping 1,547 toads and many other amphibians to safely cross Charlcombe Lane on their way to their breeding lake. From toads to towpaths, the unsung and committed efforts of our rural volunteers play a very large role in keeping our countryside looking how we all want it to look. Let's salute them.
  3. (derogatory) A contemptible or unpleasant person.
  4. (derogatory) An ugly person.

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Verb

toad (third-person singular simple present toads, present participle toading, simple past and past participle toaded)

  1. (Internet, informal, transitive) To expel (a user) permanently from a MUD or similar system, so that their account is deleted.

Anagrams

Estonian

Noun

toad

  1. nominative plural of tuba

Kankanaey

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /toˈad/ [toˈʌd̚]
  • Rhymes: -ad
  • Syllabification: to‧ad

Noun

toád

  1. state of having large buttocks

Synonyms

Dialectal synonyms and variants of toad
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GroupProvinceMunicipalityPart of municipalityBarangayTermsWords
Northern / ApplaiMountain ProvinceSagadaPidlisan / Dapliyan (north)Aguidtoach / toats
Pidetoach / toats
Fidelisantoach / toats
Bangaantoach / toats
Madungotoach / toats
Tanulongtoach / toats
Southern / CentralMountain ProvinceTadianZone 3 / Sunny SideBanaaotoad
Cadad-anantoad
Cagubatantoad
Dacudactoad
Lengatoad
Pandayantoad

Derived terms

  • itoad
  • tinmotoad

See also

References

  • Morice Vanoverbergh (1933), “toád”, in A Dictionary of Lepanto Igorot or Kankanay. As it is spoken at Bauco (Linguistische Anthropos-Bibliothek; XII)‎[1], Mödling bei Wien, St. Gabriel, Österreich: Verlag der Internationalen Zeitschrift „Anthropos“, →OCLC, page 474
  • Wallace, Judy (2018), “towad”, in Northern Kankanay – English Dictionary, Summer Institute of Linguistics

Spanish

Verb

toad

  1. second-person plural imperative of toar
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