toad

noun
/toʊd/US/təʊd/UK

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.

  1. derived from tādie
  2. inherited from *tāde
  3. inherited from tode

Definitions

  1. An amphibian, a kind of frog (order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier…

    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. A contemptible or unpleasant person.

  3. An ugly person.

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. To expel (a user) permanently from a MUD or similar system, so that their account is…

      To expel (a user) permanently from a MUD or similar system, so that their account is deleted.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at toad. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at toad. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at toad

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA