toad

• tode (obsolete)
• twoad (archaic, dialectal)

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.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /toʊd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /təʊd/

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• Rhymes: -əʊd
• Homophones: toed, towed

toad (plural toads)

1. An amphibian, a kind of frog (order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, 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

2. (derogatory) A contemptible or unpleasant person.
3. (derogatory) An ugly person.

• (amphibian):
• pad
• paddock

• amphibian
• frog
• frosh/frosk
• paddock
• tadpole

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.

• DOTA, Dato, DotA, Dota, doat

toad

1. nominative plural of tuba

toad

1. second-person plural imperative of toar