toad

CEFRB1

/toʊd/

noun · verb

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    A small land animal like a frog with dry, rough skin.

  2. 02

    noun

    Extra detail

    A contemptible or unpleasant person.

Examples

  • I can't distinguish a frog from a toad.

  • I cannot distinguish a frog from a toad.

At a glance

Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
1
Synonyms
2

Also pronounced

  • /təʊd/

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

  1. An ugly person.

  2. An amphibian, a kind of frog (order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae.

verb

Extra meaning

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

More examples

In context

  • 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

Synonyms

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A warty brown blank hopped across the wet garden path at night.

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Origin

noun

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.