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”). Compare Old English tāxe (“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/

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• Rhymes: -əʊd
• Homophones: toed, towed

Noun

toad (plural toads)

1. An amphibian, a kind of frog (order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, H.L. Brækstad, transl., 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

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

Synonyms

• (amphibian):
• pad
• paddock

Derived terms

• Amargosa toad (Anaxyrus nelsoni)
• American toad (Anaxyrus americanus)
• Arizona toad (Anaxyrus microscaphus)
• arroyo toad (Anaxyrus californicus)
• black toad (Anaxyrus exsul)
• burrowing toads (Rhinophrynus spp.)
• Canadian toad (Anaxyrus hemiophrys)
• Central American toads (Ollotis spp.)
• cane toad (Rhinella marina)
• Colorado River toad (Ollotis alvaria)
• European toad (Bufo bufo)
• fire-bellied toad (Bombina) spp.)
• Fowler's toad (Anaxyrus fowleri)
• frog and toad
• Great Plains toad (Anaxyrus cognatus)
• Gulf Coast toad (Ollotis nebulifer)
• green toad (Anaxyrus debilis)
• horned toad (Ceratophrys)
• Houston toad (Anaxyrus houstonensis)
• marine toad (Rhinella marina)
• mephitic toad (Bufo calamita)
• narrow-mouthed toads (Gastrophryne)
• North American toads (Anaxyrus spp.)
• oak toad (Anaxyrus quercicus)
• pebble toad (Oreophrynella nigra)
• red-spotted toad (Anaxyrus punctatus)
• rush toad (Bufo calamita)
• sea toad
• Sonoran Desert toad (Ollotis alvaria)
• South American toads (Rhinella spp.)
• southern toad (Anaxyrus terrestris)
• Texas toad (Anaxyrus speciosus)
• toad bug (Gelastocoridae spp.)
• toad rush (Juncus bufonius)
• toadfish
• toad-in-the-hole
• toadlike
• toadstool
• toad-strangler
• toady
• tree toad (Pedostibes)
• walking toad (Bufo calamita)
• Urungu toad
• 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), 癩蛤蟆／癞蛤蟆 (laai⁶ haa¹ maa⁴)

  Hakka: 蟾蜍 (sàm-sù), 蟾蜍囉／蟾蜍啰 (sàm-phù-lò)

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

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

• 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
• 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
• Icelandic: karta (is)
• Ido: rospo (io)
• Indonesian: kodok (id)
• 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 (kk) (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)
• Persian: وزغ‎ (fa) (vazağ), غوک‎ (fa) (ğuk)
• Plautdietsch: Pogg (nds) 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)
• 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)
• 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
• 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