Toad
noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 An amphibian, a kind of frog (order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae.
"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."
- 2 any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species wordnet
- 3 A contemptible or unpleasant person. derogatory
- 4 An ugly person. derogatory
- 1 To expel (a user) permanently from a MUD or similar system, so that their account is deleted. Internet, informal, transitive
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More examples"I can't distinguish a frog from a toad."
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.
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