英语词汇“toadgrass”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

toadgrass

释义

toad /tōd/

noun

A toothless tailless amphibian (family Bufonidae) with a warty skin that walks or crawls instead of jumping like the frog, esp one belonging to the Bufo or related genus
Any of several similar amphibians belonging to different families
A hateful or contemptible person or animal
Bufo (alchemy)

ORIGIN: OE tāde, tādige, tādie

toadˈy noun

transitive verb and intransitive verb (toadˈying; toadˈied)

To fawn on and flatter like a sycophant

toadˈyish adjective

toadˈyism noun

toadˈ-eater noun (archaic)

A toady, a fawning sycophant, orig a mountebank's assistant, whose duty was to swallow, or pretend to swallow, toads

toadˈ-eating noun

Sycophancy

adjective

Sycophantic

toadˈfish noun

Any of several toadlike fish of the Batrachoidiae family, with wide mouths, large heads and tapering bodies

toadˈflax noun

Any species of Linaria, a genus closely related to the snapdragon, with flaxlike leaves

toad-in-the-holeˈ noun

A dish orig of beef, now usu sausage meat, cooked in batter

toadˈrush or toadˈgrass noun

A low rush (Juncus bufonius) with mostly solitary flowers

toad spit or toad spittle noun

Cuckoo-spit

toadˈ-spotted adjective

Thickly stained or spotted like a toad

toadˈstone noun

A stone formerly believed to be found in a toad's head, and valued as an amulet
A basalt lava found in Carboniferous limestone in Derbyshire (so called perhaps because of its toadlike markings, but possibly from German totes Gestein dead stone, from the lead-miner's point of view)

toadˈstool noun

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