toad

See also: töad

English

Two common toads (Bufo bufo spinosus)

Alternative forms

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

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.

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -əʊd
• Homophones: toed, towed

Noun

toad (plural toads)

2. 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

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

Synonyms

• (amphibian): pad, paddock

Derived terms

• 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)

 

Translations

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:

  Cantonese: 蟾蜍 (sim⁴ syu⁴, sim⁴ cyu⁴, sim⁴ ceoi⁴), 蠄蟝 (kam⁴ keoi^4-2)

  Hakka: 蟾蜍 (sàm-sù), 蟾蜍螺 (sàm-phù-lò)

  Hokkien: 螿蜍／螀蜍 (zh-min-nan) (chiuⁿ-chî, chiuⁿ-chû), 蟾蜍 (siâm-sî, siâm-sû)

  Mandarin: 蟾蜍 (zh) (chánchú), 疥蛤蟆 (zh) (jièháma), 癩蛤蟆／癞蛤蟆 (zh) (làiháma), 戚施 (zh) (qīshī)

• 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)

  Ancient: φρῦνος m (phrûnos), φρύνη f (phrúnē)

• 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:

  Bokmål: padde (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: padde f

• 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:

  Cyrillic: крастача f

  Roman: krastača (sh) f

• Sicilian: buffa (scn) m, rospu (scn) m
• Slovak: žaba (sk) f, ropucha f
• Slovene: krastača (sl) f, krota f
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: škrodawa f

  Upper Sorbian: krokawa f

• 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

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Erzya: ^{(please verify)} мода ватракш (moda vatrakš)
• Guerrero Amuzgo: ^{(please verify)} kísë
• Welsh: ^{(please verify)} llyffant (dafadennog)

See also

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

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• DOTA, Dato, DotA, Dota, doat

Estonian

Noun

toad

1. nominative plural of tuba

Spanish

Verb

toad

1. second-person plural imperative of toar