toad

See also: töad

English

Two common toads (Bufo bufo spinosus)

Alternative forms

• tode (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English tode, which see for more. Middle English also had the forms toode, tade, tadde.

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

• IPA^(key): /toʊd/
• IPA^(key): /təʊd/
• 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.
   • 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.

Synonyms

(amphibian):

• pad
• paddock

Derived terms

• Amargosa toad ()
• American toad ()
• Arizona toad ()
• arroyo toad ()
• black toad ()
• burrowing toads ( spp.)
• Canadian toad ()
• Central American toads ( spp.)
• cane toad (Rhinella marina)
• Colorado River toad ()
• European toad (Bufo bufo)
• fire-bellied toad (Bombina) spp.)
• Fowler's toad ()
• frog and toad
• Great Plains toad ()
• Gulf Coast toad ()
• green toad ()
• horned toad ()
• Houston toad ()
• marine toad (Rhinella marina)
• mephitic toad ()
• narrow-mouthed toads ()
• North American toads ( spp.)
• oak toad ()
• pebble toad ()
• red-spotted toad ()
• rush toad ()
• sea toad
• Sonoran Desert toad ()
• South American toads ( spp.)
• southern toad ()
• Texas toad ()
• toad bug ( spp.)
• toad rush ()
• toadfish
• toad-in-the-hole
• toadlike
• toadstool
• toad-strangler
• toady
• tree toad ()
• walking toad ()
• western toad ()
• Woodhouse's toad ()
• Wyoming toad ()
• Yosemite toad ()

Translations

amphibian similar to a frog

• Abenaki: maska, mamaska
• Afrikaans: pes (af), padda (af), skurwepadda
• Albanian: thithëlopë (sq) f
• Arabic: عُلْجُوم m (ʕuljūm)
• Aragonese: zapo m
• Aramaic: יקרורא m (yaqrūra)
• 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, 癞蛤蟆 (laai⁶ haa¹ maa⁴)

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

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

  Min Nan: 螿蜍／螀蜍 (zh-min-nan), 螀蜍 (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: 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)

• Hebrew: קַרְפָּדָה f (karpadá), קרפד 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 (hikigaeru), 蟇蛙 (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, rāna f
• Latvian: krupis (lv) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Lithuanian: rupūžė f
• Luxembourgish: Mouk f
• Macedonian: крастава жаба f (krastava žaba)
• Malagasy: sabakaka (mg)
• Malay: kodok (ms), katak puru
• Maltese: zrinġ m
• Manx: beayf
• Mongolian: мэлхий (mn) (melxii)
• Nahuatl: tamazolin (nah)
• Navajo: chʼał dichʼízhí
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: padde (no) m or f

  Nynorsk: padde f

• Occitan: bàbi m
• Old Prussian: gabawo
• Ossetian: галхӕфс (galxæfs)
• Persian: وزغ (fa) (vazağ), غوک (fa) (ğuk)
• 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
• 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: please add this translation if you can
• 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
• Westrobothnian:
• 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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• 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, DotA, Dota, doat