tod
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ɒd
- Rhymes: -ɑːd
Etymology 1
From Middle English tod, of unknown origin. Possibly influenced by Etymology 2, due to its bushy tail.[1] Cognate with Scots tod.
Noun
tod (plural tods)
- (now UK dialect) A fox.
- Ben Jonson
- the wolf, the tod, the brock
- Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs
- Who am Ah? Ah'm tod, whey Ah'm tod, ye knaw. Canniest riever on moss and moor!
- Ben Jonson
- Someone like a fox; a crafty person.
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References
- ^ Skeat
Etymology 2
Apparently cognate with Saterland Frisian todde (“bundle”), Swedish todd (“mass (of wool)”, dialectal).
Noun
tod (plural tods)
- A bush, especially of ivy.
- c. 1614 John Fletcher, William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Act 4, Scene 2, 1997, Lois Potter (editor), The Two Noble Kinsmen, page 277,
- His head's yellow, / Hard-haired, and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods, / Not to undo with thunder.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The ivy tod is heavy with snow.
- c. 1614 John Fletcher, William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Act 4, Scene 2, 1997, Lois Potter (editor), The Two Noble Kinsmen, page 277,
- An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, containing two stone or 28 pounds (13 kg).
- 1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 27, p. 202:
- Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.
- 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 209:
- Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone.
- 1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 27, p. 202:
Verb
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Anagrams
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *dauþuz, akin to Old Saxon dōth, Old Dutch dōth, dōt, Old English dēaþ, Old Norse dauði, Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌿𐍃 (dauþus).
Noun
tōd m
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Descendants
- Middle High German: tōd
Slovene
Pronunciation
Adverb
tọ̄d
- (clarification of this definition is needed) thus
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