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toad

Pronunciation: /toʊd/

The English word “toad” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. An amphibian, a kind of frog (broad sense, order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae.
  2. A contemptible or unpleasant person.
  3. An ugly person.

verb

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

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.

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