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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/
- Rhymes: -əʊd
- Homophones: toed, towed
toad (plural toads)
- 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
- (derogatory) A contemptible or unpleasant person.
- (derogatory) An ugly person.
- African clawed toad
- African common toad
- African giant toad
- African tree toad
- Alajuela toad (†Incilius periglenes)
- Almirante Trail toad (Incilius peripatetes)
- Amargosa toad (Anaxyrus nelsoni)
- American toad (Anaxyrus americanus)
- Apennine yellow-bellied toad
- Arizona toad (Anaxyrus microscaphus)
- arroyo toad (Anaxyrus californicus)
- Asian common toad (Duttaphrynus melanostictus)
- black toad (Anaxyrus exsul)
- bombinator toad
- burrowing toads (Rhinophrynus spp.)
- Canadian toad (Anaxyrus hemiophrys)
- cane toad (Rhinella marina)
- Central American toads (Ollotis spp.)
- Colorado River toad (Ollotis alvaria)
- crucifix toad
- European toad (Bufo bufo)
- fire-bellied toad (Bombina) spp.)
- Fowler's toad (Anaxyrus fowleri)
- frog and toad
- golden toad (†Incilius periglenes)
- Great Plains toad (Anaxyrus cognatus)
- green toad (Anaxyrus debilis)
- Gulf Coast toad (Ollotis nebulifer)
- horned toad (Ceratophrys spp.)
- horny toad (Phrynosoma spp.)
- Houston toad (Anaxyrus houstonensis)
- marine toad (Rhinella marina)
- mephitic toad (Bufo calamita)
- midwife toad (Alytes spp.)
- Monte Verde toad (†Incilius periglenes)
- narrow-mouthed toads (Gastrophryne)
- North American toads (Anaxyrus spp.)
- oak toad (Anaxyrus quercicus)
- obstetrical toad, obstetric toad (Alytes spp.)
- odious as a toad
- orange toad (†Incilius periglenes)
- ornate horned toad
- pebble toad (Oreophrynella nigra)
- red-spotted toad (Anaxyrus punctatus)
- red toad trillium (Trillium sessile)
- rush toad (Bufo calamita)
- sea toad
- shelt-toad, shield-toad
- Sonoran Desert toad (Ollotis alvaria)
- South American toads (Rhinella spp.)
- southern toad (Anaxyrus terrestris)
- spadefoot toad
- strange-horned toad
- Surinam toad, Suriname toad
- Texas toad (Anaxyrus speciosus)
- toad bug (Gelastocoridae spp.)
- toadeater
- toadfish
- toad grass
- toad-grass (Juncus bufonius)
- toad in a hole, toad in the hole, toad-in-the-hole
- toadlike
- toadpole
- toad rush (Juncus bufonius)
- toad-spit
- toadstool
- toad-strangler
- toad trillium (Trillium sessile)
- toady
- Tonkin toad
- tree toad (Pedostibes spp.)
- true toad (Bufonidae spp.)
- Urungu toad (Sclerophrys urunguensis)
- walking toad (Bufo calamita)
- western toad (Anaxyrus boreas)
- Woodhouse's toad (Anaxyrus woodhousii)
- Wyoming toad (Anaxyrus baxteri)
- Yosemite toad (Anaxyrus canorus)
amphibian similar to a frog
- Abenaki: maska, mamaska
- Afrikaans: pes (af), padda (af), skurwepadda (af)
- Albanian: thithëlopë (sq) f, zhabë (sq) f
- Arabic: عُلْجُوم m (ʕuljūm)
- Aragonese: zapo m
- Aramaic:
- Classical Syriac: ܝܩܪܘܪܐ m (yaqrūrā)
- Armenian: դոդոշ (hy) (dodoš)
- Asturian: sapu m
- Avar: къверкъ (qxʷʼerqxʼ)
- Aymara: jamp'atu (ay)
- Azerbaijani: quru qurbağası, qurbağa (az)
- Basque: apo
- Belarusian: рапу́ха f (rapúxa), жа́ба f (žába)
- Bemba: i-ceshi
- Breton: touseg (br) m
- Bulgarian: крастава жа́ба f (krastava žába)
- Burmese: ဖားပြုပ် (my) (hpa:prup)
- Catalan: gripau (ca) m
- Chamicuro: tis̈ha
- Chechen: бецан пхьид (becan pḥʳid)
- Cherokee: ᏩᎶᏏ (walosi)
- Chinese:
- Cornish: cronek
- Crimean Tatar: baqa, qır baqa, suvbaqa
- Czech: ropucha (cs) f
- Danish: tudse (da) c, padde c
- Dutch: pad (nl) f, krodde f
- Esperanto: bufo (eo)
- Estonian: kärnkonn (et)
- Faroese: padda f
- Finnish: (Bufo vulgaris) rupikonna (fi), konna (fi), rupisammakko (fi)
- French: crapaud (fr) m
- Friulian: bufo m, 'save m, 'sâf m
- Galician: costro (gl) m, coucou (gl) m, estombo m, sapo (gl) m
- Georgian: გომბეშო (gombešo)
- German: Kröte (de) f
- Alemannic German: Chrott f
- Greek: φρύνος (el) m (frýnos)
- Guaraní: kururu
- Hebrew: קַרְפָּדָה f (karpadá), קרפד (he) m (karpád)
- Hindi: भेक (hi) (bhek)
- Hungarian: varangy (hu), varangyos béka (hu)
- Icelandic: karta (is)
- Ido: rospo (io)
- Indonesian: katak (id)
- Ingrian: kärnäkonna
- Irish: buaf f
- Italian: rospo (it) m
- Japanese: ヒキガエル (ja) (hikigaeru), 蟇蛙 (ja) (hikigaeru), 蝦蟇 (がま, gama)
- Kaingang: pepo
- Kazakh: құрбақа (qūrbaqa)
- Khmer: គីង្គក់ (km) (kiingkʊək)
- Korean: 두꺼비 (ko) (dukkeobi), (obsolete) 두터비 (duteobi)
- Kyrgyz: курбака (ky) (kurbaka)
- Lao: ຄັນຄາກ (lo) (khan khāk), ລື່ງ (lư̄ng)
- Latgalian: rupucs m
- Latin: būfō m
- Latvian: krupis (lv) m
- Laz: მჟვაბუ (mjvabu)
- Lithuanian: rupūžė f
- Luxembourgish: Mouk f
- Macedonian: крастава жаба f (krastava žaba)
- Malagasy: sabakaka (mg)
- Malay: kodok (ms), katak puru
- Maltese: zrinġ m
- Manchu: ᠸᠠᡴᡧᠠᠨ (wakšan)
- Manx: beayf
- Maori: poraka taratara
- Mingrelian: ჟვაბუ (žvabu)
- Mongolian: мэлхий (mn) (melxii)
- Nahuatl: tamazolin (nah)
- Navajo: chʼał dichʼízhí
- Norwegian:
- Occitan: grapaud m, sabaud m
- Old English: tosca, tāxe
- Old Prussian: gabawo
- Osage: níižu oxáke
- Ossetian: галхӕфс (galxæfs)
- Ottoman Turkish: قره قوربغه (kara kurbağa)
- Persian: وزغ (fa) (vazağ), غوک (fa) (ğuk)
- Plautdietsch: Pogg (nds) f
- Polabian: lozaikă f
- Polish: ropucha (pl) f, ropuch (pl) m
- Portuguese: sapo (pt) m
- Quechua: ampatu, gogo, jamp'atu
- Romanian: broască râioasă f
- Russian: жа́ба (ru) f (žába)
- Scots: puddock
- Scottish Gaelic: losgann dubh m, muile-mhàg f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Sicilian: buffa (scn) m, rospu (scn) m
- Slovak: žaba (sk) f, ropucha f
- Slovene: krastača (sl) f, krota f
- Sorbian:
- Southern Sami: tsååbpe
- Spanish: sapo (es) m, sapa (es) f
- Swahili: chura (sw), chula
- Swedish: padda (sv) c
- Tagalog: karag, palakang-kati
- Tajik: ғук (tg) (ġuk), вазағ (vazaġ) (literary)
- Tarifit: aqarqriw m, ajru m
- Tatar: бака (tt) (baqa)
- Telugu: గోదురు కప్ప (te) (gōduru kappa)
- Thai: คางคก (th) (kaang-kók)
- Tibetan: please add this translation if you can
- Tswana: tlametlo
- Turkish: kurbağa (tr)
- Turkmen: gurlawuk, gurbaağa, gurbaga
- Tuvan: бөзүр-пага (bözür-paga)
- Tày: ca rộc, càm tú, khám khoọc
- Ukrainian: ропу́ха f (ropúxa), жа́ба f (žába)
- Urdu: please add this translation if you can
- Uyghur: چارپاقا (charpaqa)
- Uzbek: choʻlbaqa (uz)
- Vietnamese: cóc (vi)
- Volapük: bufod, rosip
- Welsh: llyffant m
- West Frisian: pod, podde
- White Hmong: qav kaws
- Wolof: mbott mi
- Yiddish: זשאַבע f (zhabe)
- Yucatec Maya: much
- Zulu: iselesele (zu)
very unpleasant man
- Afrikaans: padda (af)
- Georgian: საზიზღარი (sazizɣari), საძაგელი (saʒageli), ბილწი (bilc̣i)
- Hebrew: גוֹעַל (gó`al) (very informal slang; literally "nastiness, ugliness")
- Hungarian: varangy (hu)
- Macedonian: катиљ m (katilj)
- Russian: па́костник (ru) m (pákostnik)
- Scottish Gaelic: losgann m
- Spanish: sapo (es) m
toad (third-person singular simple present toads, present participle toading, simple past and past participle toaded)
toad
- nominative plural of tuba
toad