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Definition: Toad |
ToadNoun1. Any of various tailless stout-bodied amphibians with long hind limbs for leaping; semiaquatic and terrestrial species. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "toad" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
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Computing | Toad vt. [MUD] 1. Notionally, to change a MUD player into a toad. 2. To permanently and totally exile a player from the MUD. A very serious action, which can only be done by a MUD wizard; often involves a lot of debate among the other characters first. See also frog, FOD. Source: Jargon File. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of toads, signifies unfortunate adventures. If a woman, your good name is threatened with scandal. To kill a toad, foretells that your judgment will be harshly criticised. To put your hands on them, you will be instrumental in causing the downfall of a friend. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Multilingual Slang | Lituanaian (rupuze). (references) |
Slang in 1811 | TOAD. Toad in a hole; meat baked or boiled in pye-crust. He or she sits like a toad on a chopping-block; a saying of any who sits ill on horseback. As much need of it as a toad of a side-pocket; said of a person who desires any thing for which he has no r. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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Toads
Monte Verde ToadScientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Amphibia Order: Anura Family: Bufonidae
Genera see text The true toads are the members of the Family Bufonidae in the Order Anura of amphibians. However a number of species in other families of Amphibia that are commonly referred to as toads. Although there are characteristics which distinguish frogs from toads in this broader sense, those distinctions do not form the basis for any broad scientific differentiation between the two.
The type species of the family Bufonidae is the Common Toad, Bufo bufo, and around it cluster a large number of species of the same genus, and some smaller genera. B. bufo is a tailless amphibian of stout build, with a warty skin, and any animal that shares these characteristic is liable to be called a toad, regardless of its location in formal taxonomy.
That the shape of the body is not a safe guide in judging of anuran groups is shown by certain species, such as Bufo jerboa, which has a very slender form and extremely long limbs, surpassing typical frogs, whilst on the other hand, some true frogs (Rana), adapted to burrowing habits, are absolutely toad-like. The Bufonidae include terrestrial, burrowing, thoroughly aquatic and arboreal types; Rhinophrynus, of Mexico, may be described as an anteater.
The genus Bufo embraces about 100 species, and is represented in nearly every part of the world except the Australian region (with the exception of the introduced Cane Toad (Bufo marinus), Madagascar, and nearly all other isolated islands.
Two species are found in the British Isles: the Common Toad, Bufo bufo, and the Natterjack Toad, Bufo calamita. The former is found almost everywhere. The Natterjack, which differs in its shorter limbs with nearly free toes (which are so short that the toad never hops but proceeds in a running gait) and in usually possessing orange/red warts, green eyes & a pale yellow line along the middle of the back, is local in England, the south-west of Scotland, and the west of Ireland. It is further remarkable for the very loud croak of the males, produced by a large vocal bladder on the throat which, when inflated, is larger than the head. Toads lay their eggs in long strings, forming double files in straight, jelly-like tubes.
Toads and the preservation of their habitat play an important role in Carl Hiaasen's 1999 novel Sick Puppy.
Toad (Nintendo Character)
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Toad is a humanoid mushroom in games of the Super Mario Brothers series by Nintendo.He made his debut in Super Mario Brothers but he didn't have a name until Super Mario Bros 2. Toad is the most loyal mushroom retainer that has ever worked for Princess Peach Toadstool. He is also a good friend of Mario and Luigi. He has had an active role in Super Mario Bros 2, Wario's Woods, Super Mario Kart, Mario Kart 64, Mario Golf, and Mario Tennis.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Toad (Nintendo character)."
Synonyms: ToadSynonyms: anuran (n), batrachian (n), frog (n), salientian (n), toadfrog (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Animal | Frog, toad. |
Inexpedience | Evil, wrong; depraved; shocking; reprehensible; (disapprove). hateful, hateful as a toad; abominable, detestable, execrable, cursed, accursed, confounded; damned, damnable; infernal; diabolic; (malevolent). |
Physical Pain | Anguish, agony; torment, torture; rack; cruciation, crucifixion; martyrdom, toad under a harrow, vivisection. |
Servility | Sycophant, parasite; toad, toady, toad-eater; tufthunter; snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight; timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir-Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank; flatterer; doer of dirty work; ame damnee, tool; reptile; slave; (servant); courtier; beat, dead beat, doughface , heeler, homme de cour, sponger, sucker, tagtail, truckler. |
Ugliness | Adjective: ugly, ugly as sin, ugly as a toad, ugly as a scarecrow, ugly as a dead monkey; plain, bald (unadorned); homely; ordinary, unornamental, inartistic; unsightly, unseemly, uncomely, unlovely; unshapely; sightless, seemless; not fit to be seen; |
Eyesore, object, witch, hag, figure, sight, fright; monster; dog, woofer, pig; octopus, specter, scarecrow, harridan, satyr, toad, monkey, baboon, Caliban, Aesop, "monstrum horrendum informe ingens cui lumen ademptum". | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | If a vampire should bestrode, close to the grave of a dead toad. Then the vampire, life shall give (Kronos; writing credit: Brian Clemens) I'd like to turn her into a fat ol' hop toad. (Sleeping Beauty; writing credit: Milt Banta; Winston Hibler) I had to live with that squealing, corpulent little toad all these years (Ruthless People; writing credit: O. Henry; Dale Launer) You stinking toad! (Inuyasha; writing credit: Rumiko Takahashi) Toad has a wicked tongue, Senator (X-Men; writing credit: Tom DeSanto; Bryan Singer) | |
Lyrics | Hunting the horny back toad (Goodbye Yellow Brick Road; performing artist: Elton John) Huting the horny back toad ("Goodbye Yellow Brick Road"; performing artist: Elton John) | |
Clever | Eat one live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) Toad of Toad Hall (1946) Deep Toad (2003) | |
Song Titles | All I Want (performing artist: Toad The Wet Sprocket) Walk On The Ocean (performing artist: Toad The Wet Sprocket) Mr. Grinch (performing artist: Mojo and the Toad Liquors Nixon) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Moxo in his red racer Horned toad racers in the Southwest. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Ari passes on Moxo's car Horned toad racers in the Southwest. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Kiss a toad tonight. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Sundried cane toad" by Stuart Creegan Commentary: "A dead cane toad, burnt by the sun." | "Toad 3" by Bobbie Osborne Commentary: "*" |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
 | Water flowing in a stream with toad croaking. | | Bullfrog croaking; toad croaking; croak. |
| Toad croaking. | ||
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| Author | Quotation |
William Shakespeare | Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head. |
| I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Title | Author | Quote |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Thou toad, thou toad, where is thy brother Clarence |
As You Like It | William Shakespeare | Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which like the toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head; And this our life, exempt from public haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, Sermons in the stones, and good in every thing |
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Business | Local companies include Toad plc, which has expanded rapidly since its formation in the early 90s, Scorpion Vehicle Security Systems Ltd., Weston Body Hardware Ltd., Barrier Systems Ltd., Saxon Industries Ltd., and Carflow Products (UK) Ltd. in addition to the Tracker Network (UK) Ltd. tracking system, other systems include RAC Trackstar and Spacetrak. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | EDIBLE, adj. Good to eat, and wholesome to digest, as a worm to a toad, a toad to a snake, a snake to a pig, a pig to a man, and a man to a worm. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Toad" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 88.40% of the time. "Toad" is used about 250 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 88.4% | 221 | 20,297 |
| Noun (proper) | 9.6% | 24 | 71,196 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.2% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.8% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 250 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Toad Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "toad": agua toad ♦ american green toad ♦ american toad ♦ bell toad ♦ cane toad ♦ eurasian green toad ♦ european toad ♦ horned toad ♦ midwife toad ♦ nasty toad ♦ obstetrical toad ♦ Pacific tree toad ♦ ribbed toad ♦ rush toad ♦ sea toad ♦ South American poison toad ♦ southwestern toad ♦ spade toad ♦ spadefoot toad ♦ Surinam toad ♦ tailed toad ♦ Texas toad ♦ Toad fighting ♦ toad lily ♦ Toad lizard ♦ toad pipe ♦ toad rush ♦ Toad snatcher ♦ Toad spittle ♦ toad stool ♦ toad under a harrow ♦ tree toad ♦ true toad ♦ ugly as a toad ♦ western toad ♦ Yosemite toad. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "toad": toad-badges, toad-eater, toad-eating, toad-flax, Toad-in-the-hole, toad-like. | |
Ending with "toad": can-toad, spine-toad. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
toad | 1,209 | man toad x | 35 |
frog and toad | 268 | eat toad | 35 |
toad the wet sprocket | 240 | horney toad | 32 |
horny toad | 162 | care toad | 31 |
toad house | 154 | lily toad | 31 |
fire belly toad | 146 | broadway frog toad | 31 |
place toad | 121 | patrol toad | 29 |
frog toad all year | 117 | hole in toad | 26 |
horned toad | 102 | pet toad | 25 |
fire bellied toad | 88 | long toad tongue | 24 |
garden toad | 85 | food toad | 23 |
cane toad | 75 | fish toad | 23 |
firebelly toad | 71 | toad hollow | 20 |
american toad | 64 | suriname toad | 20 |
lyrics toad the wet sprocket | 62 | toad download | 20 |
toad oracle | 48 | haven new place toad | 20 |
battle toad | 43 | toad sql | 19 |
free toad | 42 | mr ride toad wild | 19 |
toad picture | 41 | troll and toad | 19 |
toad software | 41 | quest toad | 19 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "toad"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | padda (frog). (various references) | |
Albanian | thithëlopë, zhabë. (various references) | |
Arabic | علجوم ضفدع, شخص تافه (bauble, black sheep, bugger, crumb, deformity, dog, insect, morsel, myrmidon, nitwit, peanut, pipsqueak, rag, sprat, swab, trash). (various references) | |
Aymara | jamp'atu. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | суха жаба, крастава жаба, отвратителен човек (cow, shocker), жабче. (various references) | |
Chinese | 蟾蜍 . (various references) | |
Cornish | cronek. (various references) | |
Czech | ropucha, odporný èlovìk, bídák. (various references) | |
Danish | tudse. (various references) | |
Dutch | pad (path). (various references) | |
Esperanto | bufo. (various references) | |
Farsi | وزغ (Frog). (various references) | |
Finnish | rupisammakko, konna (scoundrel, villain). (various references) | |
French | crapaud. (various references) | |
Frisian | podde, pod. (various references) | |
German | Kröte, Unke. (various references) | |
Greek | βάτραχοσ (frog), φρύνοσ, φρύνος. (various references) | |
Hebrew | קרפדה. (various references) | |
Hungarian | varangy. (various references) | |
Indonesian | katak (frog). (various references) | |
Italian | rospo (anglerfish, black-bellied angler, frogfish, monkfish, sea devil). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 蟇蛙 , 蟇 , 蟆 , 蝦蟇 , がぶりと噛み付く (clattering, crowd of people talking, griping, look like, nagging, savor of, sinking one's teeth into, smack of, sound like), デ杯 (bathroom, Davis Cup, lavatory, prerecorded announcement, restroom, talk, talk show, talkie, Taurus, tautology, toast, toaster, tochka, toe, toe dance, toe kick, toeshows, together, Togo, toilet, toilet case, toilet paper, toilet powder, toilet soap, toiletry, Tokaji, Tokamak, Tokay, token, tokenism, toll, tollgate, tonal, tonality, tone, tone down, tooth, torch, torch lamp, torch relay, tornado, torus, total, Total Energy System, total fashion, total look, total product, totalizator system, tote bag, totem, totem pole, totemism, tournament, tournament pro, toxoplasma, true, try for point, tutti). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がま , トード , ひきがえる, ひき (defamation, head, joys and sorrows, roll of cloth, small animal counter). (various references) | |
Korean | 두꺼비. (various references) | |
Manx | rannag ghoo, beayf. (various references) | |
Papiamen | dori (frog). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | oadtay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | sapo (frog, paddock). (various references) | |
Romanian | otreapã (rag, shred), linguşitor (adulatory, bootlicker, cajoler, cajoling, crawler, encomiast, fawning, flatterer, flattering, flunkey, gratifying, ingratiating, oilily, reptile, servile, sleek, smoothie, spaniel, supple, supply, sycophant, toad-eater, toad-eating, toady, yes man), lingãu (bootlicker, boot-licker, flunkey, glutton, lickspittle, minion, sponge, sycophant, toad-eater, toady), canalie (rapscallion, rascal, scoundrel, villain), broascã râioasã. (various references) | |
Russian | жаба (hoptoad). (various references) | |
Scottish | màgan, losgunn (frog). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | žaba krastača. (various references) | |
Spanish | sapo (anglerfish, frogfish, monkfish, sea devil). (various references) | |
Sranan | todo (frog). (various references) | |
Swedish | padda (natterjack). (various references) | |
Thai | ถนน (boulevard, drive, frog and toad, road, roadway). (various references) | |
Turkish | kara kurbağası, iğrenç tip (insect, jerk, stinkpot). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гадина, жаба (frog, paddock), підлесник (bootlicker, coax, courtier, flatterer, pickthank, sycophant, toady, wriggler). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | người đáng khinh (sneak, worm, yellow dog). (various references) | |
Welsh | llyffant (frog). (various references) | |
Yucatec | much (frog). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Anura, bufo, Bufo boreas, Bufo periglenes, Bufo superciliaris, Bufonidae, Equisetum arvense, Juncus bufonius L., Nectophrynoides, rana, Salientia. (various references) |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | tadde. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "toad": toadeater, toadeaters, toadfish, toadfishes, toadflax, toadflaxes, toadied, toadies, toadish, toadless, toadlike, toads, toadstone, toadstones, toadstool, toadstools, toady, toadying, toadyish, toadyism, toadyisms. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "toad": hoptoad. (additional references) | |
Words containing "toad": hoptoads. (additional references) | |
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"Toad" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: choad, doad, oad, oadg, Oadp, Otard, stoad, tada, tadd, tado, taid, taox, Tejada, thad, thoed, tiad, tida, tmoa, toa, toab, Toadal, toade, toaf, toag, toaid, toaj, toak, toal, toam, Toan, toap, toar, toaw, toax, toda, tode, toev, togaed, toiad, toid, Toida, toide, toif, Toka, Tokar, tolab, Tonard, tonaw, tond, tood, toord, toqa, Torada, toraf, toraid, Torand, tord, tosa, toud, tova, Tovar, t'owd, Toya, Tozaj, troad, Tvad, twad, twoa, tzand, Wojado. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "toad" (pronounced tō"d) |
| 3 | t ō" d | bestowed, plateaued, stowed, toed, towed. |
| 2 | -ō" d | abode, bestrode, blowed, bode, busload, code, commode, corrode, crowed, decode, load, lode, encode, erode, explode, flowed, forebode, glowed, goad, implode, mode, mowed, node, ode, outmode, overflowed, overrode, owed, reload, road, rode, rowed, sewed, showed, slowed, snowed, strode, unbowed, unload. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: dato, doat. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-o-t" | |
-1 letter: ado, dot, oat, tad, tao, tod. | |
-2 letters: ad, at, do, od, ta, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-o-t" | |
+1 letter: adopt, datos, datto, doats, dotal, octad, tardo, toads, toady, today. | |
+2 letters: adopts, adroit, atoned, autoed, azoted, boated, coated, dacoit, dakoit, dalton, dattos, diatom, doated, donate, dopant, dotage, dotard, fantod, iodate, moated, octads, orated, outadd, todays, togaed, toward. | |
+3 letters: aborted, adaptor, adjoint, adopted, adoptee, adopter, agatoid, anthoid, astound, athodyd, auditor, bloated, boasted, borated, cactoid, cantdog, carotid, cathode, coacted, coadmit, coapted, coasted, cordate, costard, cotidal, dacoits, dacoity, dakoits, dakoity, daltons, dashpot, delator, diatoms, diatron, dilator, doating, dogcart, dogmata, donated, donates, donator, doormat, dopants, dormant, dotages, dotards, factoid, fadeout, fagoted, fantods, fatwood, floated, fondant, footpad, garoted, gloated, goateed, handout, hardtop, hoptoad, hothead, iodated, iodates, kathode, leotard, loathed, lobated, located, madwort, mastoid, matador, mattoid, mordant, notated, notepad, octadic, odonate, odorant, opiated, outadds, outdare, outdate, outdrag, outdraw, outlaid, outland, outread, outward, oxidant, oxidate, parotid, pintado, podesta, pothead, readopt, readout, redcoat, roasted, rotated, rotunda, sandlot, solated, stardom, tabloid, tabooed, tabored, tacnode, tadpole, taloned, tandoor, tangoed, tardyon, toadied, toadies, toadish, toasted, togated, tornado, torsade, tostada, tostado, totaled, towards, towhead, troaked, troland, tsardom, tzardom, zonated. | |
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