toadn.
/təʊd/, U.S. /toʊd/ 1.
a. A tailless amphibian of the genus Bufo; primarily the common European species Bufo vulgaris; thence extended to many foreign species of the genus or of the family Bufonidæ. running toad, the natterjack.
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the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > types of frog or toad > suborder Procoela > family Bufonidae (true toads) > member of (toad)
toadc1000
marine toad1802
toad-frog1861
α.
β. 11.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 544/7 (Ru)beta, tadde.c1175 Lamb. Hom. 51 Þer wunieð in-ne..Blake tadden.c1175 Lamb. Hom. 53 Ah liggeð þer uppon, alse þe tadde deð in þere eorðe.?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 159 Schal inhelle wurðen him toaden & neddren.1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VIII. 18 A womman þat hadde a fende wiþ inne her..caste up tweȝ blake taddes.1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Tollem. MS.) xvi. lxxi This stone is take oute of a tadde heed.γ. a1300 Cursor Mundi 23227 Fell dragons and tades [v.r. tadis] bath.a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xc. 13 Þe snake werpis and þe tade nuryssis þe eg, and þarof is broght forth þe basilyske.c1440 York Myst. xi. 271 For tadys and frosshis we may not flitte.c1440 Alphabet of Tales 240 He drew oute a grete whik tade.a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 578 in Poems (1981) 130 Heir I beteiche my corps and carioun With wormis and with taidis to be rent.1568 (a1508) W. Kennedy Flyting (Bannatyne) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 209 Tigiris, serpentis and taidis [a1586 tadis] will remane In Dumbar wallis.1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd ii. ii Mixt wi' the venom of black taids and snakes.1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor viii, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 114 A taed may sit on her coffin the day.1823 J. Galt Entail II. xxix. 277 Ye would as soon think of likening a yird tead to a patrick.1863 J. P. Robson Songs Bards of Tyne 353 Now, Geordy, my lad, sit as mute as a tyed.δ. 12.. St. Patrick's Purg. 274 in Horstm. Alteng. Leg. (1875) 188 Eddren furi vpen hem sete, and toden grete al so.c1325 Song Mercy 56 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 120 Þou seȝe me a monge todes blake Ful longe in harde prisoun lyng.1370–80 XI Pains of Hell 60 in Old Eng. Misc. 224 As Fissches þei were in þat flod þo, Todus, Neddres, Snakes mony mo.a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 152 Thay hym yaue pryuely a lytill toode in a drynke.1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 281/2 Tode, crapault.1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 16 Nesorpora is a stone of Pontus..found in a Todes heade.1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 116 Findyng there a most venemous toade.a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. i. 13 Sweet are the vses of aduersitie Which like the toad, ougly and venemous, Weares yet a precious Iewell in his head. View more context for this quotation1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 800 Him there they found Squat like a Toad, close at the eare of Eve. View more context for this quotation1763 C. Churchill Prophecy of Famine 16 Marking her noisome road With poison's trail, here crawl'd the bloated Toad.1849 T. Bell Brit. Reptiles (ed. 2) 115 Few animals have ever suffered more undeserved persecution as the victims of an absurd and ignorant prejudice than the toad.1849 T. Bell Brit. Reptiles (ed. 2) 126 Natter-jack Toad.1895 P. H. Emerson Birds, Beasts, & Fishes Norfolk Broadland 392 The Running Toad..has a yellow stripe down his back.1909 Blackwood's Mag. Apr. 503/2 She was already on friendly terms with my mice and my toads and my snake.c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 122/11 Buffo, tadige.
a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 321/23 Rubeta, tadie.
b. As a type of anything hateful or loathsome.
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the mind > emotion > hatred > object of detestation (person or thing) > [noun] > type of anything hateful or loathsome
toad1548
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxxi To whom the Frenche nacion, was more odious then a tode.
1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. T2, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) It behoueth also..that..he doe incline to good..that he abhorre flattery as a toad.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. iii. 158 I do hate a proud man, as I do hate the ingendring of Toades.
1645 J. Milton Colasterion 13 To hate one another like a toad or poison.
c. In various figurative and proverbial uses. to eat (any one's) toads, to be a mean dependant, to toady (see toad-eater n.). toad under a harrow, a simile for a person under constant persecution or oppression.
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the mind > emotion > humility > servility > be servile [verb (intransitive)]
fawnc1325
crouch1528
jouk1573
crawl1576
creep1581
spaniel1599
grovel1605
spanielize1641
cringec1660
to lick the ground1667
truckle1680
to kiss (a person's) arse, behind, bum1705
toad-eat1766
snool1786
to eat (any one's) toads1788
kowtow1826
sidle1828
toady1861
to knock head1876
ass-lick1937
the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > oppression, persecution, or affliction > one under constant oppression
toad under a harrow1788
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > flatter servilely or curry favour [verb (intransitive)]
fain?c1225
fawnc1325
to make placebo1340
fagea1382
curryc1400
to curry favela1420
to claw (a person's) toea1500
to curry favour?1518
to be at the school of placebo1554
to play (with) placebo1583
insinuatea1593
wriggle1601
lick1602
sycophantize1605
gnathonize1619
pickthank1621
supparasitate1623
ingratiate1647
slaver1730
toad-eat1766
slaum1787
to eat (any one's) toads1788
toad1802
bootlick1846
toady1861
to suck in1899
smoodge1906
smarm1911
arse-lick1928
bum-suck1930
to suck round1931
ass-lick1937
brown-nose1939
suck-hole1961
weasel1980
the mind > emotion > humility > self-abasement > humble oneself [verb (intransitive)]
to eat one's words1571
humblea1592
to eat (any one's) toads1815
to eat humble pie1830
to grovel in the dust or dirt1865
1649 E. Reynolds Israels Prayer (new ed.) i. 46 [As] impossible..as for a Toad to spit Cordials.
1788 Ld. Bulkeley in Duke of Buckingham Court George III (1853) I. 364 There is no man who eats Pitt's toads with such zeal, attention, and appetite.
1815 ‘J. Mathers’ Hist. Mr. John Decastro & Brother Bat I. 252 [We] were e'en forced to eat our toads and be silent.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Toad-under-a-Harrow, the comparative situation of a poor fellow, whose wife, not satisfied with the mere hen-pecking of her helpmate, takes care that all the world shall witness the indignities she puts upon him.
1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. I. ii. vi. 385 Kept like toads under a harrow.
1855 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes II. xv. 143 Don't they follow him to college: and eat his toads through life?
1903 Daily Chron. 16 May 3/4 The ‘toad-under-the-harrow’ existence of a plain, middle-aged, but cultivated and fine-natured spinster, whose whole life was subordinated to an invalid and rather malignant old mother.
2. †Used for the frog (obsolete); applied to other allied animals, as Suriname toad = pipa n.1horned, midwife, obstetrical toad: see the first word.
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the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > frog
froshc1000
frouda1200
toada1300
paddockc1300
paddoc1480
hipfrog1611
croaker1651
Dutch nightingale1769
froggy?1800
fen-nightingalea1825
yellowbellyc1825
greenback1876
a1300 E.E. Psalter lxxvii. 50 [lxxviii. 45] And sent in am hundeflegh, and it ete þa; Tade [L. ranam], and it for-spilt þam swa.
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iii. iii. sig. F2v Now croakes the toad.
1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 110 A species of toads call'd piwal, or pipal, the female of which deposits her egs in valvulæ or little cells on the back of the male, so that when the young are hatched they seem to grow out of the body of the male.
1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 148 The pipa is a large venomous toad peculiar to Guiana.
1802 Eng. Encycl. VIII. 730/1 The pipal, or Surinam toad, is more ugly than even the common one.
1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. xi. 355 Like the young of the Surinam toad (Rana pipa), they attach themselves in clusters upon her back, belly, head, and even legs.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Satyrane's Lett. ii, in Biogr. Lit. (1882) 252 Pretty little additionals sprouting out from it like young toadlets on the back of a Surinam toad.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1838) III. 121 A Surinam toad with a swarm of toadlings sprouting out of its back and sides.
1838 Penny Cycl. X. 493/1 The male Pipa, or Surinam toad, as soon as the eggs are laid, places them on the back of the female, and fecundates them.
1894 St. G. Mivart Types Animal Life 113 Like the Pipa toad it brings forth its young in the adult condition.
1901 P. Fountain Deserts N. Amer. viii. 158 The ‘Californian toad’ which is really a species of lizard.
3.
a. Applied opprobriously to human beings and animals.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused
warlockOE
swinec1175
beastc1225
wolf's-fista1300
avetrolc1300
congeonc1300
dirtc1300
slimec1315
snipec1325
lurdanc1330
misbegetc1330
sorrowa1350
shrew1362
jordan1377
wirlingc1390
frog?a1400
warianglea1400
wretcha1400
horcop14..
turdc1400
callet1415
lotterela1450
paddock?a1475
souter1478
chuff?a1500
langbain?c1500
cockatrice1508
sow1508
spink1508
wilrone1508
rook?a1513
streaker?a1513
dirt-dauber?1518
marmoset1523
babiona1529
poll-hatcheta1529
bear-wolf1542
misbegotten1546
pig1546
excrement1561
mamzer1562
chuff-cat1563
varlet1566
toada1568
mandrake1568
spider1568
rat1571
bull-beef1573
mole-catcher1573
suppository1573
curtal1578
spider-catcher1579
mongrela1585
roita1585
stickdirta1585
dogfish1589
Poor John1589
dog's facec1590
tar-boxa1592
baboon1592
pot-hunter1592
venom1592
porcupine1594
lick-fingers1595
mouldychaps1595
tripe1595
conundrum1596
fat-guts1598
thornback1599
land-rat1600
midriff1600
stinkardc1600
Tartar1600
tumbril1601
lobster1602
pilcher1602
windfucker?1602
stinker1607
hog rubber1611
shad1612
splay-foot1612
tim1612
whit1612
verdugo1616
renegado1622
fish-facea1625
flea-trapa1625
hound's head1633
mulligrub1633
nightmare1633
toad's-guts1634
bitch-baby1638
shagamuffin1642
shit-breech1648
shitabed1653
snite1653
pissabed1672
bastard1675
swab1687
tar-barrel1695
runt1699
fat-face1740
shit-sack1769
vagabond1842
shick-shack1847
soor1848
b1851
stink-pot1854
molie1871
pig-dog1871
schweinhund1871
wind-sucker1880
fucker1893
cocksucker1894
wart1896
so-and-so1897
swine-hound1899
motherfucker1918
S.O.B.1918
twat1922
mong1926
mucker1929
basket1936
cowson1936
zombie1936
meatball1937
shower1943
chickenshit1945
mugger1945
motherferyer1946
hooer1952
morpion1954
mother1955
mother-raper1959
louser1960
effer1961
salaud1962
gunk1964
scunge1967
a1568 Bannatyne Poems (Hunterian Club) 396/36 Ane fowle taid cairle.
1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iv. iv. 81 To helpe me cursse, That botteld spider, that foule bunch-backt toade . View more context for this quotation
1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. D3 Iero. Is not this a monstrous courtier. hora. He is the court tode father.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 159 All true Persians thinke..of them, as enemies to Mahomet..and that all their Disciples were Toades, the of-scum of the earth & vile Apostates.
1741 J. Ozell tr. P. de B. de Brantôme Spanish Rhodomontades Author's Advt. A cursed Toad of a Horse..not only threw me but rolled over me.
c1771 S. Foote Maid of Bath iii.54 What a miserable poor toad is a husband, whose misfortunes not even death..can relieve!
1853 R. Carmichael in Whistle-Binkie 3rd Ser. 47 Sic a pridefu' taid Our Tibbie's grown.
1894 J. D. Astley Fifty Years of my Life II. 87 The silly toad had carelessly forgotten to pull the stirrup-irons up.
b. Applied to children. Cf. tad n. 2.
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the world > people > person > child > [noun]
wenchelc890
childeOE
littleOE
littlingOE
hired-childc1275
smalla1300
brolla1325
innocentc1325
chickc1330
congeonc1330
impc1380
faunt1382
young onec1384
scionc1390
weea1400
birdc1405
chickenc1440
enfaunta1475
small boyc1475
whelp1483
burden1490
little one1509
brat?a1513
younkerkin1528
kitling1541
urchin1556
loneling1579
breed1586
budling1587
pledge?1587
ragazzo1591
simplicity1592
bantling1593
tadpole1594
two-year-old1594
bratcheta1600
lambkin1600
younker1601
dandling1611
buda1616
eyas-musketa1616
dovelinga1618
whelplinga1618
puppet1623
butter printa1625
chit1625
piggy1625
ninnyc1626
youngster1633
fairya1635
lap-child1655
chitterling1675
squeaker1676
cherub1680
kid1690
wean1692
kinchin1699
getlingc1700
totum17..
charity-child1723
small girl1734
poult1739
elfin1748
piggy-wiggy1766
piccaninny1774
suck-thumb18..
teeny1802
olive1803
sprout1813
stumpie1820
sexennarian1821
totty1822
toddle1825
toddles1828
poppet1830
brancher1833
toad1836
toddler1837
ankle-biter1840
yarkera1842
twopenny1844
weeny1844
tottykins1849
toddlekins1852
brattock1858
nipper1859
sprat1860
ninepins1862
angelet1868
tenas man1870
tad1877
tacker1885
chavvy1886
joey1887
toddleskin1890
thumb-sucker1891
littlie1893
peewee1894
tyke1894
che-ild1896
kiddo1896
mother's bairn1896
childling1903
kipper1905
pick1905
small1907
God forbid1909
preadolescent1909
subadolescent1914
toto1914
snookums1919
tweenie1919
problem child1920
squirt1924
trottie1924
tiddler1927
subteen1929
perisher1935
poopsie1937
pre-schooler1937
pre-teen1938
pre-teener1940
juvie1941
sprog1944
pikkie1945
subteenager1947
pre-teenager1948
pint-size1954
saucepan lid1960
rug rat1964
smallie1984
bosom-child-
1836 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 1st Ser. xxvii. 178 Two little orphan children, the prettiest little toads I ever beheld.
1897 Private Life of Queen xi. 93 Jonathan Mace..had been a day labourer at Frogmore... He always spoke of the Queen's spirited sons as ‘rare young toads’.
1954 M. Sharp Gipsy in Parlour iv. xxiv. 234 Why shouldn't 'ee wed the poor toad?
1958 ‘Miss Read’ Storm in Village iii. 38 If our Billy has the nightmares, I shan't wonder! Poor little toad, and him so high strung!
1981 V. Canning Boy on Platform One vii. 108 I'll show you. Never seen a salmon! You poor little toad.
4. = toady n. 2.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > [noun] > servile flatterer
papelard1340
placeboc1395
fawnerc1440
pickthank1460
adulator?a1475
earwigc1475
curry-favel1515
men-pleaser1526
gnatho1533
upcreeperc1540
claw-back1549
curry-favourer1563
man-pleaser1564
claw-poll1569
please-man1570
sycophant1575
curry-favour1577
capper1587
insinuator1598
clawera1603
scrape-shoe1607
suck-fist1611
courtiera1616
foot lickera1616
fleerera1627
wriggler1631
fawn1635
limberham1689
toad-eater1742
tuft-hunter1755
arse-kisser1766
sleeve-creeper1809
lick-spit1822
lickspittle1825
shoe-licker1826
toady1826
toad1831
toader1842
bootlicker1846
bootlick1849
favour-currier1855
lubricator1872
bum-sucker1877
handshaker1884
suck1900
mbongo1911
sucker-up1911
apple-polisher1918
snurge1933
ass-licker1939
brown-nose1939
brown-noser1942
arse-licker1951
ass-kisser1951
greaser1959
suck-hole1966
suck-up1970
bumboy1984
fly-
1831 Countess Granville Let. 21 Feb. (1894) II. 89 All her toads toad on because they see that I toad her too.
1834 W. Beckford Italy; with Sketches Spain & Portugal II. 159 Mrs. Guildermeester..we found in a vast but dingy saloon, her toads squatting around her.
1834 W. Beckford Italy; with Sketches Spain & Portugal II. 159 Donna Genuefa, the toad-passive in waiting..Miss Coster, the toad-active,..makes tea with decorum.
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren x. 191 One who makes up to a teacher is recognized as being in a slightly different category from an outright sneak, although almost as nauseous. The usual epithets are ‘toad’ or ‘toady’, ‘worms’, ‘crawler’, or, in Camberwell, ‘grease boy’ or ‘grease rat’.
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the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical processes > [noun] > chemical digestion > substances used in > black tincture
toad1471
bufo1612
1471 G. Ripley Compound of Alchymy i. xx, in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chem. Britannicum (1652) 134 Our Tode of the Erth whych etyth hys fyll.
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. iii. sig. E2 Your Toade, your Crow, your Dragon, and your Panthar. View more context for this quotation
6.
a. Cookery. toad in the (†a) hole: meat, now usually sausages, baked in batter.
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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > sausage > [noun] > sausage dish
toad in the (a) hole1787
haggis supper1877
pig in a blanket1926
sausage toad1937
krautfurter1949
currywurst1960
1787 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. Pudding-Pye-Doll, the dish called toad-in-a-hole, meat boiled in a crust. Norf.
1797 F. Burney Let. Dec. in Diary & Lett. (1840) IV. 47 Mrs. Siddons and Sadler's Wells..seems..as illfitted as the dish they call a toad in a hole,..putting a noble sirloin of beef into a poor paltry batter-pudding.
1836 A. W. Fonblanque Eng. under Seven Admin. (1837) III. 314 ‘Toad-in-a-hole’, a piece of meat baked in a pudding, with a pool of gravy round it.
1883 F. B. Harrison Little Pretty iv I give you hashes, and toad-in-the-hole, and curry, and use up all the odds and ends.
1927 P. Riley Mem. ii. 11 Dinner..varied from salt beef,..‘Schooner on the Rocks’, i.e., joint of meat roasted on potatoes, or ‘toad in the hole’.
1934 Cassell's Mod. Practical Cookery 145/1 Put in the sausages. Season the batter,..and pour it over them. Put the toad-in-the-hole into a good, moderately hot oven.
1934 T. S. Eliot Rock i. 40 Restaurants where you can get..sausage and mashed or toad-in-the-'ole for twopence.
1943 L. Chatterton Mod. Cookery 167/1 Toad in the hole without eggs... Milk,..flour,..bicarbonate of soda,..vinegar,..salt,..sausages,..dripping... Small sausages are best.., or..steak cut in two-inch pieces may be used.
1959 B. Nilson Penguin Cookery Bk. 330 Toad-in-the-hole is made like Yorkshire pudding, but 1lb. skinned sausages is heated in the fat for 5 minutes before adding the batter.
1971 Guardian 18 June 11/6 Although ‘toad-in-the-hole’ is an unprepossessing name it must be one of the few dishes which sounds even worse in French. I am sure no one would eat ‘Le crapaud au trou’.
b. toad in the hole: a name applied to various games, esp. a form of hide-and-seek and a game in which lead discs are thrown at holes in a wooden structure.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [noun] > others
sitisota1400
papsea1450
half-bowl1477
pluck at the crow1523
white and black1555
running game1581
blow-pointa1586
hot cocklesa1586
one penny1585
cockelty bread1595
pouch1600
venter-point1600
hinch-pinch1603
hardhead1606
poor and rich1621
rowland-hoe1622
hubbub1634
handicap?a1653
owl1653
ostomachy1656
prelledsa1660
quarter-spellsa1660
yert-point1659
bob-her1702
score1710
parson has lost his cloak1712
drop (also throw) (the) handkerchief1754
French Fox1759
goal1765
warpling o' the green1768
start1788
kiss-in-the-ring1801
steal-clothes1809
steal-coat1816
petits paquets1821
bocce1828
graces1831
Jack-in-the-box1836
hot hand1849
sparrow-mumbling1852
Aunt Sally1858
gossip1880
Tambaroora1882
spoof1884
fishpond1892
nim1901
diabolo1906
Kim's game1908
beaver1910
treasure-hunt1913
roll-down1915
rock scissors paper1927
scissors cut paper1927
scissors game1927
the dozens1928
toad in the hole1930
game1932
scissors paper stone1932
Roshambo1936
Marco Polo1938
scavenger hunt1940
skish1940
rock paper scissors1947
to play chicken1949
sounding1962
joning1970
arcade game1978
1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel 381 They got tired playing toad in the hole in the deep weeds.
1969 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games iv. 154 When played after dark, as is not unusual, it [sc. Hide-and-Seek] may have a special name, such as..‘Toad in the Hole’ (Forfar).
1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 229 Toad-in-the-hole..probably originated in England in Tudor times. Since then, it has been played in many parts of the world, including Argentina, where it is known as Sapo.
1970 Daily Tel. 18 Mar. 15/6 Mr. P. N. Barnard's letter..about the ‘charity game’ known as toad in the hole..has provided me with a translation into English of this very old game which used to be played a great deal in France, where it is known as tonneau.
1975 Country Life 11 Dec. 1677/4 I am..looking for examples of the following regional inn sports:..twister (Suffolk), and toad in the hole (Sussex)... Every one of the games I have mentioned is actually played in English pubs today.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
toad-hole n.
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1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan I. 108 Never seed a wood-chuck in a toad-hole I guess?
toad-poison n.
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1869 Zoologist 4 1832 The ignorant of all ages have believed in the existence of this toad-poison, the men of science have almost universally treated its existence as a fable.
toad-pond n.
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1851 G. Borrow Lavengro (1911) iv. 30 The sludge in the toad-pond.
toad-spawn n.
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1854 C. D. Badham Prose Halieutics 507 These last acquired such celebrity in the knowledge of wheedling, as to be called parasite, or toad-spawn.
toad-venom n.
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1852 Zoologist 10 3658 The active principle of toad-venom is alkaline in its character.
b.
toad-bellied adj.
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1633 J. Ford 'Tis Pitty shee's Whore iv. sig. H4 You Toad-bellied bitch.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 448 Beside him stands Father Coffey, chaplain, toadbellied, wrynecked.
toad-blind adj.
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1850 M. Kelly tr. Lynch Cambrensis Eversus II. 217 Giraldus, who was toad blind (talpâ cæcior) to everything creditable to the Irish.
toad-green adj.
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1890 Daily News 27 Sept. 2/1 A toad-green cloth redingote.
toad-housing adj.
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1598 E. Guilpin Skialetheia ii. sig. C6 How toad-housing sculs, and old swart bones, Are grac'd with painted toombs, and plated stones.
toad-legged adj.
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1843 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 4 i. 190 The fact of wheat being broken down near the root, or ‘toade-legged’.
toad-shaped adj.
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1902 L. O. Howard Insect Bk. 281 The Toad Bugs..[These] odd and ugly little insects..have been appropriately termed the ‘toad-shaped bugs’.
toad-spotted adj.
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the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [adjective] > as abused
lousyc1386
greasya1529
mongrela1594
shake rotten1595
strummell-patch1600
thornbackly1605
toad-spotted1608
pissabed1643
shit-breeched1664
shit-breech1675
mole-catching1693
nine-eyed1694
poxya1758
cocksucking1872
bastard1877
motherfucking1890
son-of-a-bitching1902
so-and-so1929
mother-raping1932
zombie1937
chickenshit1940
pissy-arsed1940
bastarding1944
mother-loving1948
mothering1951
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxiv. 135 A most toad-spotted traytor. View more context for this quotation
1915 W. Owen Let. Apr. (1967) 331 It's Measles!... Bloody eyes—toad-spotted, raw-meat-coloured skin.
toad-swollen adj.
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1603 H. Crosse Vertues Common-wealth sig. L3v So toade-swolne with pride and ambition, that he is ready to burst in sunder.
c.
toad-like adj.
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. viii. sig. S6v A tode-like retyrednesse, and closenesse of minde.
1812 Religionism 43 Then lay thy awkward, toad-like twists aside.
1845 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 2) 386 My purpose..hath grown in me and lived on, Toad-like within a rock—vital where all Beside was death.
d.
toadwise adv.
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1867 S. Lanier Strange Jokes 17 Give lair and rest To him who toadwise sits and croaks.
C2. Special combinations: See also toad-eater n., etc. † toad-pipe n. (also tadpipe) Obsolete any one of various species of Equisetum.† toad-pool n. Obsolete a mass of corrupt poisonous matter. † toad's bread n. Obsolete a fungus.† toad's-guts n. Obsolete a term of abuse.† toad's hat n. Obsolete a toadstool.† toadskin n. North American slang. (obsolete) (a) a five-cent stamp; (b) a banknote.
toad-back adj. of a stair-rail, etc., having a section of three-lobed shape held to resemble the back of a toad.
toad-bit n. a disease of cattle: see quot.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > other disorders of cattle
murrainc1450
gall1577
gargyse1577
sprenges1577
wisp1577
closh1587
milting1587
moltlong1587
hammer1600
mallet1600
scurvy1604
wither1648
speed1704
nostril dropping1708
bladdera1722
heartsick1725
throstling1726
striking1776
feather-cling1799
hollow-horn1805
weed1811
blood striking1815
the slows1822
toad-bit1825
coast-fever1840
horn-distemper1843
rat's tail1847
whethering1847
milk fever1860
milt-sickness1867
pearl tumour1872
actinomycosis1877
pearl disease1877
rat-tail1880
lumpy jaw1891
niatism1895
cripple1897
rumenitis1897
Rhodesian fever1903
reticulitis1905
barbone1907
contagious abortion1910
trichomoniasis1915
shipping fever1932
New Forest disease1954
bovine spongiform encephalopathy1987
BSE1987
mad cow disease1988
East Coast fever2009
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Toad-bit, a disease among cattle..imputed to the poison of toads.
toad-bug n. any species of the American genus Galgulus of small predaceous Hemiptera.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > miscellaneous types > member of family Galgulidae
sand-bug1854
toad-bug1902
1902 L. O. Howard Insect Bk. 281 The Toad Bugs..[These] odd and ugly little insects..have been appropriately termed the ‘toad-shaped bugs’. The short, broad body,..the projecting eyes,..the dull mottled colors, are toad-like.
toad-cheese n. (also toad's cheese, †taddechese) a poisonous fungus.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > harmful or parasitic fungi > [noun] > poisonous fungi
toad-cheese14..
toadstool1607
fairy mushroom1884
destroying angel1887
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 585/21 Fungea..i. boletus..a taddechese.
14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 618/4 Tubera, taddechese.
1703 J. Whiting in C. Marshal Sion's Trav. (1704) b viij b Several of which persecuting Justices soon after dyed with Eating of Tadcheese (alias Mushrooms).
1853 J. Lousley Let. 9 Jan. in Notes & Queries (1962) Mar. 84/1 Toads cheeses are the poisenous Fungusses which grow in our hedgerows and woods.
1882 Hardwicke's Sci.-gossip 165/1 ‘Toad's cheeses’, rank fungi.
toad-flower n. an African plant, Stapelia bufonia.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > non-British plants or herbs > [noun] > African plants > stapelias
stapelia1785
starfish1840
carrion-flower1852
toad-flower1884
stapeliad1933
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 137/2 African Toad-flower.
toad-frog n. (a) a book-name for the genus Pelobates of tailless amphibians: see quot.; (b) U.S. dialect = sense 1a.
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the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > types of frog or toad > suborder Procoela > family Bufonidae (true toads) > member of (toad)
toadc1000
marine toad1802
toad-frog1861
1861 Harper's Mag. Aug. 421/1 Every body is a pitching into this matter like toad-frogs into a willow swamp.
1896 Lydekker New Nat. Hist. V. 283 The fifth family..comprises eight genera, which may be collectively termed toad-frogs, since they come neither under the designation of toads or frogs.
1913 H. Kephart Our Southern Highlanders xiii. 295 In the Smokies a toad is called a frog or a toad-frog.
1964 J. H. Clarke Harlem 276 She just stood..swellin' up like a big toad frog.
1981 Amer. Speech 56 45 Toad-frog is Southern and Midland.
toad-grass n. = toad-rush n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > rush and related plants
rusheOE
sharp rushc1050
seave14..
junk?a1425
candle-rushc1440
rush1562
sea-rush1562
camel's-straw1578
mat-rush1578
sprot1595
frog grass1597
matweed1597
rush grass1597
sprata1600
spart1614
bumble1633
toad-grass1640
moss-rush1670
thresha1689
spreta1700
bog rush1760
black grassa1763
goose-corn1762
toad-rush1776
wood-rush1776
stool-bent1777
scrub-grass1811
beak-rush1830
salt-weed1836
wiwi1840
thread rush1861
three-leaved rush1861
kill-cow1898
1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 1190 The Flemmings generally call [it] Padde grasse, that is, Tode grasse.
1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. V. 297 Toad Rush..sometimes called Toad-grass.
toad-head n. the American golden plover (U.S. regional).
ΚΠ
1889 Cent. Dict. VIII. 6361 Toadhead.
toad-lily n. (a) Fritillaria pyrenaica; (b) the American white water-lily (U.S. regional); (c) the Japanese Tricyrtis hirta.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > non-British flowers > of Asia
Prophet flower1861
ixia-lily1866
Maltese cross1868
toad-lily1884
whorl-flower1884
Perovskia1907
1884 W. Miller Dict. Eng. Names Plants 137/2 Toad-lily, Fritillaria nigra. Japanese Toad-lily, Tricyrtis hirta.
toad-lizard n. (a) the horned toad ( Cent. Dict. 1891); (b) the labyrinthodon.
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the world > animals > amphibians > [noun] > extinct types of > labyrinthodont or rachitome
labyrinthodon1841
labyrinthodont1841
Cheirotherium1855
rachitome1857
rachiotome1859
toad-lizard1899
1899 Edinb. Rev. Apr. 317 The Labyrinthodon, or monster toad-lizard.
toad-marl n. a dark-coloured variety of marl.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > kind of earth or soil > [noun] > marl > other marls
pigeon marl1601
paper-marl1707
toad-marl1764
rock marl1772
earth-marl1803
wichert1912
1764 Museum Rusticum 2 cx. 377 Called toad marle, from its resemblance in colour to that animal.
toad-orchis n.
Brit. /ˈtəʊdˌɔːkɪs/
, /ˈtəʊdˌɔːkɪs/U.S. /ˈtoʊdˌɔrkəs/
, /ˈtoʊdˌɔrkəs/West African English /ˈtodˌɔˌkis/
a tropical West African orchid, Megaclinium Bufo, having purple-spotted flowers./ˈtodˌɔˌkis/ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > ferns > [noun] > horse-tail and allies
padpipe?a1300
paddock-pipec1300
holy-water strinklec1440
shavegrassc1450
shavewortc1450
horsetail1538
shaving-grass1538
cat's tail1552
toad-pipe1578
pewterwort1597
horse-willow1611
prêle1661
shave-weed1691
water horsetail1710
horse-pipe1785
rush1804
shave-rush1821
equisetum1830
pipeweed1837
scouring rush1845
mud horsetail1855
jointweed1879
bottlebrush1883
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. lxviii. 101 The small [horsetail] is called..in English smal Shauegrasse, and of some Tadpipes.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > corruption or putridness > [noun] > corrupt or putrid matter or thing
filthOE
carrion1297
putrefactionc1425
pourriture1494
rottacka1500
corruption1526
septic1597
toad-pool1607
putrification1619
grave-jelly1657
putrilage1657
putrilency1657
putredo1680
putridity1790
putrescence1843
1607 G. Chapman Bussy D'Ambois iii. 41 Thy gall Turns all thy blood to poison, which is cause Of that Tode-poole that..makes thee..rot as thou liu'st.
toad-rock n. = toadstone n.2
toad-rush n. Juncus bufonius.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > reedy or aquatic grasses > [noun] > rush and related plants
rusheOE
sharp rushc1050
seave14..
junk?a1425
candle-rushc1440
rush1562
sea-rush1562
camel's-straw1578
mat-rush1578
sprot1595
frog grass1597
matweed1597
rush grass1597
sprata1600
spart1614
bumble1633
toad-grass1640
moss-rush1670
thresha1689
spreta1700
bog rush1760
black grassa1763
goose-corn1762
toad-rush1776
wood-rush1776
stool-bent1777
scrub-grass1811
beak-rush1830
salt-weed1836
wiwi1840
thread rush1861
three-leaved rush1861
kill-cow1898
1776 W. Withering Brit. Plants (1796) II. 348 [Juncus] bufonius..Toad Rush. Wet Gravelly or sandy meadows and pastures.
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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > fungus, mushroom, or toadstool
froga1398
fungea1398
toadstool1398
paddock-stoola1400
padstoola1400
toad's hatc1440
paddockcheesea1500
campernoyle1527
fungus1527
frogstool1535
bruche1562
fungo1562
champignon1578
toadstool1607
toad's bread1624
canker1640
fung1665
fungoid1734
agaric1777
pixie stool1787
fungillus1794
toad's capa1825
fungal1836
hysterophyte1849
macrofungus1946
1624 T. Wood tr. Verheiden Oration 58 Therefore Philip gaue him fungos, or Toads-bread to eate.
toad's cap n. a toadstool.
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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > fungus, mushroom, or toadstool
froga1398
fungea1398
toadstool1398
paddock-stoola1400
padstoola1400
toad's hatc1440
paddockcheesea1500
campernoyle1527
fungus1527
frogstool1535
bruche1562
fungo1562
champignon1578
toadstool1607
toad's bread1624
canker1640
fung1665
fungoid1734
agaric1777
pixie stool1787
fungillus1794
toad's capa1825
fungal1836
hysterophyte1849
macrofungus1946
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Toad's-cap, a fungus.
toad's eye n. a precious stone; ? = crapaud n. 2.
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > other gems or precious stones > [noun]
hepatitec1305
ligurec1305
bdellium1382
chodchod1382
nevyn1393
asteritea1398
medusa1398
myrrhitea1398
astrion1398
emastycec14..
pinkardinec1400
iralc1420
oriel?a1425
serpentine1426
nakettec1450
pentestc1450
sun's gemc1475
sepulchre-stone1489
moonstonea1500
piantea1500
efestide1567
astroite1569
polyp stone1583
bedle1591
balanite1601
eshime1613
lyncury1638
asteria1646
pangony1658
palasin1678
palatine1678
rhombite1688
tree-stone1698
toad's eye1747
peacock stone1753
turquoise1796
odontolite1819
pagoda stone1860
tangiwai1863
fish-eye1882
1747 R. Dingley in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 44 505 The Toad's-Eye, black.
toad's eye tin n. a variety of cassiterite.
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the world > the earth > minerals > ore > [noun] > metal ore > tin ore
tin-stone1602
crop1778
row1778
stream-tin1778
tin-stuff1778
wood-tin1787
stannolite1843
toad's eye tin1850
cassiterite1858
tin wash1898
the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > oxides and hydroxides > [noun] > rutile and uranite groups A02 > cassiterite
tin-stone1602
stream-tin1778
wood-tin1787
stannolite1843
toad's eye tin1850
cassiterite1858
varlamoffite1948
1850 D. T. Ansted Elem. Course Geol. §490 Toad's eye tin is the same variety [as wood tin] on a small scale.
1874 J. H. Collins Princ. Metal Mining (1875) i. 13 In..Cornwall..valuable lumps of ‘wood-tin’ and ‘toad's-eye’ tin have been built into hedges.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > as abused
warlockOE
swinec1175
beastc1225
wolf's-fista1300
avetrolc1300
congeonc1300
dirtc1300
slimec1315
snipec1325
lurdanc1330
misbegetc1330
sorrowa1350
shrew1362
jordan1377
wirlingc1390
frog?a1400
warianglea1400
wretcha1400
horcop14..
turdc1400
callet1415
lotterela1450
paddock?a1475
souter1478
chuff?a1500
langbain?c1500
cockatrice1508
sow1508
spink1508
wilrone1508
rook?a1513
streaker?a1513
dirt-dauber?1518
marmoset1523
babiona1529
poll-hatcheta1529
bear-wolf1542
misbegotten1546
pig1546
excrement1561
mamzer1562
chuff-cat1563
varlet1566
toada1568
mandrake1568
spider1568
rat1571
bull-beef1573
mole-catcher1573
suppository1573
curtal1578
spider-catcher1579
mongrela1585
roita1585
stickdirta1585
dogfish1589
Poor John1589
dog's facec1590
tar-boxa1592
baboon1592
pot-hunter1592
venom1592
porcupine1594
lick-fingers1595
mouldychaps1595
tripe1595
conundrum1596
fat-guts1598
thornback1599
land-rat1600
midriff1600
stinkardc1600
Tartar1600
tumbril1601
lobster1602
pilcher1602
windfucker?1602
stinker1607
hog rubber1611
shad1612
splay-foot1612
tim1612
whit1612
verdugo1616
renegado1622
fish-facea1625
flea-trapa1625
hound's head1633
mulligrub1633
nightmare1633
toad's-guts1634
bitch-baby1638
shagamuffin1642
shit-breech1648
shitabed1653
snite1653
pissabed1672
bastard1675
swab1687
tar-barrel1695
runt1699
fat-face1740
shit-sack1769
vagabond1842
shick-shack1847
soor1848
b1851
stink-pot1854
molie1871
pig-dog1871
schweinhund1871
wind-sucker1880
fucker1893
cocksucker1894
wart1896
so-and-so1897
swine-hound1899
motherfucker1918
S.O.B.1918
twat1922
mong1926
mucker1929
basket1936
cowson1936
zombie1936
meatball1937
shower1943
chickenshit1945
mugger1945
motherferyer1946
hooer1952
morpion1954
mother1955
mother-raper1959
louser1960
effer1961
salaud1962
gunk1964
scunge1967
1634 Noble Souldier iv. sig. Gv Toads-guts,..doe you heare, Monsire?
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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > fungus, mushroom, or toadstool
froga1398
fungea1398
toadstool1398
paddock-stoola1400
padstoola1400
toad's hatc1440
paddockcheesea1500
campernoyle1527
fungus1527
frogstool1535
bruche1562
fungo1562
champignon1578
toadstool1607
toad's bread1624
canker1640
fung1665
fungoid1734
agaric1777
pixie stool1787
fungillus1794
toad's capa1825
fungal1836
hysterophyte1849
macrofungus1946
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 495/2 Todyshatte (or muscheron),..tuber.
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society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > [noun] > a banknote
bank bill1682
bill1682
note1695
money bill1713
banknote1759
post-note1788
screen1789
stiff1823
flimsy1824
shin-plaster1824
billet1837
pennif1862
toadskin1867
currency note1891
dead president1944
society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [noun] > postage stamp > types of
black1863
penny black1863
local1865
error1866
toadskin1867
fiscal1869
imperforate1874
tête-bêche1874
halfpenny1881
provisional1885
British colonial1902
precancel1903
definitive1929
airmail1930
pictorial1934
perfin1945
1867 F. H. Ludlow Little Brother 251 ‘Why, ma, don't you know what a toadskin is?’ said Billy, drawing a dingy five-cent stamp from his pocket. ‘Here's one... And don't I wish I had lots of 'em!’
1912 J. Sandilands Western Canad. Dict. & Phrase-bk. Toadskin, a dollar bill. Originally, in the States, a toadskin meant a five-cent stamp, and of a mean, grasping person it was said ‘His purse is made of toad's skin.’
1926 Flynn's 16 Jan. 639/1 Still I can flash a toad-skin now and then, and have a few iron men planted where th' berries grow.
toad's meat n. dialect toadstools.
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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > fungus, mushroom, or toadstool > collectively
toad's meat1886
1886 P. Robinson Valley Teetotum Trees 134 The rustic calls [toadstools] ‘toad's meat’.
toad's mouth n. the snapdragon, Antirrhinum majus.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > foxglove and allied flowers > snapdragon
calves'-snout1548
antirrhinum1551
snapdragon1573
lion's snap1597
lion's mouth1706
frog's mouth1754
dog's mouth1824
toad's mouth1839
Bunny Mouth1846
dragon's-mouth1857
bulldogs1861
poor man's torment1899
1839 Phillips in Sat. Mag. 18 May 190/1 It has..received various names, as Dog's Mouth,..Toad's Mouth, and Snap-Dragon.
toad-snatcher n. the reed-bunting.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Emberizinae (bunting) > genus Emberiza > emberiza schoeniclus (reed-bunting)
reed-sparrowa1500
junco1706
nettle-monger1712
night warbler1739
willow-nightingale1774
reed bunting1776
ring bird1837
ring fowl1840
toad-snatcher1848
1848 Zoologist 6 2290 The black-headed bunting..a ‘toad-snatcher’.
1885 C. Swainson Provinc. Names Brit. Birds 72 Reed Bunting..Toad snatcher.
toad-spit n. = toad-spittle n.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > member of family Cercopidae (spit-insects) > frothy secretion
wood-sear1585
cuckoo-spit1592
cuckoo-spittle1646
toad-spittle1658
spring-frotha1722
toad-spit1751
froth-spit1753
frog spittle1811
frog-spit1823
cuckoo-froth1872
1751 W. Warburton in Wks. of Alexander Pope IV. 37 (note) Those frothy excretions, called by the people Toad spits, seen in summer-time hanging upon plants.
toad-spittle n. = cuckoo-spit n.2 1.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > member of family Cercopidae (spit-insects) > frothy secretion
wood-sear1585
cuckoo-spit1592
cuckoo-spittle1646
toad-spittle1658
spring-frotha1722
toad-spit1751
froth-spit1753
frog spittle1811
frog-spit1823
cuckoo-froth1872
1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 909 [Nature] hath infected the Sage with Toad-spittle.
toad-stabber n. slang (chiefly U.S.) a large pocket-knife or jack-knife.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > knife > [noun] > pocket-knife
pocket knife1676
jackknife1683
barlow knife1779
stick knife1819
shut-knife1879
toad-stabber1885
switch-blade1909
blade1920
Batangas knife1937
switch-knife1955
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > knife or dagger > [noun] > types of
anlacec1300
misericord1324
bodkin1386
baselardc1390
popperc1390
wood-knife1426
spudc1440
pavade1477
bistoury1490
skene1527
dudgeon1548
sword dagger1567
machete1575
kris1589
bum dagger1596
stillado1607
stiletto1611
steelet1616
hanjar1621
pisaa1640
jockteleg1642
khanjar1684
bayonet1692
kuttar1696
parazonium1751
skene-ochles1754
scalping-knife1759
snick-a-snee1760
manchette1762
snickersnee1775
guard-dagger1786
boarding knife1807
scalp-knife1807
kukri1811
skene-dhu1811
parang1820
stylet1820
belt knife1831
bowie-knife1836
scalper1837
sheath-knife1837
toothpick1837
tumbok lada1839
snick-and-snee knife1843
tickler1844
bowie1846
toad-sticker1858
simi1860
scramasax1862
kinjal1863
left-hander1869
main gauche1869
aikuchi1875
tanto1885
toad-stabber1885
cinquedea1897
trench knife1898
puukko1925
panga1929
quillon dagger1950
flick-knife1957
ratchet knife1966
sai1973
ratchet1975
1885 G. Sweetman Gloss. Wincanton Toad-stabber,..a bad knife.
1915 S. Lewis Trail of Hawk x. 102 Carl..pried open a class-room window with his large jack-knife..known as a ‘toad-stabber’.
1938 W. Smitter F.O.B. Detroit 48 ‘There you are,’ said Russ, snapping the blade open. ‘A regular toad-stabber of a thing.’
toad-sticker n. U.S. slang a large knife; formerly also, a sword.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > knife or dagger > [noun] > types of
anlacec1300
misericord1324
bodkin1386
baselardc1390
popperc1390
wood-knife1426
spudc1440
pavade1477
bistoury1490
skene1527
dudgeon1548
sword dagger1567
machete1575
kris1589
bum dagger1596
stillado1607
stiletto1611
steelet1616
hanjar1621
pisaa1640
jockteleg1642
khanjar1684
bayonet1692
kuttar1696
parazonium1751
skene-ochles1754
scalping-knife1759
snick-a-snee1760
manchette1762
snickersnee1775
guard-dagger1786
boarding knife1807
scalp-knife1807
kukri1811
skene-dhu1811
parang1820
stylet1820
belt knife1831
bowie-knife1836
scalper1837
sheath-knife1837
toothpick1837
tumbok lada1839
snick-and-snee knife1843
tickler1844
bowie1846
toad-sticker1858
simi1860
scramasax1862
kinjal1863
left-hander1869
main gauche1869
aikuchi1875
tanto1885
toad-stabber1885
cinquedea1897
trench knife1898
puukko1925
panga1929
quillon dagger1950
flick-knife1957
ratchet knife1966
sai1973
ratchet1975
1858 Calif. Spirit of Times 7 Aug. 1/8 The Judge put his toad sticker atween his teeth, tuk a pistol in won hand, and a slung shot in the other, an sez thru his nose, ‘cum on’.
1944 J. S. Pennell Hist. Rome Hanks 293 I must have picked up this old toadsticker.
toad-strangler n. U.S. dialect a heavy downpour of rain.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > a or the fall of rain > downpour
floodc1275
spate1513
spout1554
gourder1565
squata1640
downpouring1669
deluge1720
pash1722
plout1740
on-ding1776
pelt1785
soaker1789
pelter1791
teem1793
pour1794
oncome1808
downpour1811
plash1820
slashing1829
plungec1841
dispunging1876
steeper1878
splurge1879
soak1891
drencher1892
toad-strangler1938
1938 M. K. Rawlings Yearling xix. 228 Hit's a toad-strangler of a rain.
1980 Knoxville (Tennessee) News-Sentinel 6 Apr. c4/5 ‘We say toad-strangler for a hard rain around here,’ Farley said.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
toadv.
/təʊd/, U.S. /toʊd/ transitive. To act as a toady to; to toady. Also intransitive.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > flatter servilely or curry favour [verb (intransitive)]
fain?c1225
fawnc1325
to make placebo1340
fagea1382
curryc1400
to curry favela1420
to claw (a person's) toea1500
to curry favour?1518
to be at the school of placebo1554
to play (with) placebo1583
insinuatea1593
wriggle1601
lick1602
sycophantize1605
gnathonize1619
pickthank1621
supparasitate1623
ingratiate1647
slaver1730
toad-eat1766
slaum1787
to eat (any one's) toads1788
toad1802
bootlick1846
toady1861
to suck in1899
smoodge1906
smarm1911
arse-lick1928
bum-suck1930
to suck round1931
ass-lick1937
brown-nose1939
suck-hole1961
weasel1980
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > flattery or flattering > servile flattery or currying favour > flatter servilely or curry favour with [verb (transitive)]
flatter1340
to claw the back ofc1394
to pick a thank (also thanks)c1422
clawc1425
to claw by the sleeve1509
to claw by the backa1542
fawna1568
to make or pay (one's) court to1590
adulate1612
hug1622
sycophant1637
to make up to1701
to whip it in with1702
cultivate1706
incense1708
to wheedle in with1726
to grandfather up1747
slaver1794
toad1802
to play up to ——1809
nut1819
toady1827
bootlick1846
to suck up to1860
lickspittle1886
jolly1890
bum-suck1918
arse-lick1919
to cosy up to1937
brown-nose1948
ass-kiss1951
ass-lick1962
love-bomb1976
1802 G. Colman Poor Gentleman (new ed.) ii. ii. 32 How these tabbies love to be toaded!
1826 F. Reynolds Life & Times II. 303 (note) He could scarcely ever get anybody but dull toading tuft~hunters to remain there above four days.
1831 Countess Granville Let. 21 Feb. (1894) II. 89 All her toads toad on because they see that I toad her too.
1849 W. Irving Oliver Goldsmith (rev. ed.) xxxix. 335 Boswell's inveterate disposition to toad, was a sore cause of mortification to his father.
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