Definitions for toad

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Spelling: [tohd]

IPA: /toʊd/

Toad is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in toad (adot).

Definitions for toad

noun

1. any of various tailless amphibians that are close relatives of the frogs in the order Anura and that typically have dry, warty skin and are terrestrial or semiterrestrial in habit. Compare frog1 (def 1).
2. Also called true toad. a toad of the widespread and chiefly terrestrial family Bufonidae, having relatively short hind legs used in hopping and often having at the shoulders swellings containing glands that, along with the skin, secrete an irritating fluid in defense. Compare frog1 (def 2).
3. any of various toadlike animals, as certain lizards.
4. a person or thing as an object of disgust or aversion.

Origin of toad

before 1000; Middle English tode, Old English tāde, tādi(g)e

Examples for toad

Mr. toad's career in the House was as correct as his conduct out of it.

It is a combination of the words cesso (toilet) and rospo (toad).

According to one version of the story, Tschang O took the shape of this toad.

"Of money you mean, toad," she answered, kicking him with her slippered foot.

Not every estate owner was responsible; inheritance often entailed no more business sense than a Bertie Wooster or Mr. toad.

It seemed to him to combine the repulsive qualities of a spider and a toad.

There is a charming story about a toad, called Monsieur le Vicomte.

I was more loathsome in my own eyes than was a toad, and I thought I was so in God's eyes too.

When the toad first emerges from the egg it is amazingly like the fish.

One of the ablest men, Mr. toad, after all, that this country ever produced.