toad
/təʊd/US/toʊd/
toad noun: an amphibian, a kind of frog (broad sense, order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae.
Noun
toad (plural toads)
- An amphibian, a kind of frog (broad sense, order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae.
- Shortly he heard the trolls coming. They had a fiddler with them, and some began dancing, while others fell to eating the Christmas fare on the table - some fried bacon, and some fried frogs and toads, and other nasty things which they had brought with them.1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 149
- There's a killer on the road / His brain is squirmin' like a toad1971, Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger & John Densmore, "Riders on the Storm", The Doors, L.A. Woman.
- A contemptible or unpleasant person.
- An ugly person.
Verb
toad (third-person singular simple present toads, present participle toading, simple past and past participle toaded)
toad meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu
toad in Hindi
- amphibian similar to a frog
- भेक bhek
toad in Tamil
- தேரை, அருவருப்பானவர்
toad in Urdu
- مینڈک, مینڈکی
toad in Telugu
- amphibian similar to a frog
- గోదురు కప్ప gōduru kappa
More languagesFewer languages
- toad in Malayalam
- ചൊറിത്തവള coṟittavaḷa
- toad in Kannada
- ನೆಲಗಪ್ಪೆ, ಕಾಡುಗಪ್ಪೆ
- toad in Tagalog
- karag, palakang-kati
- toad in Arabic
- عُلْجُوم ʕuljūm, ضِفْدَع طِين ḍifdaʕ ṭīn
- toad in Malay
- kodok, katak puru
- toad in Indonesian
- katak
- toad in Persian
- وزغ vazaġ, غوک ġuk
- toad in Thai
- คางคก kaang-kók
- toad in Vietnamese
- cóc
- toad in Myanmar
- ဖားပြုပ် hpa:prup
Examples of toad in a sentence
- The potion made him into a toad.
- TOAD attacks often involve callback phishing, where victims are tricked into calling fake call centers.
- Aristotle used vernacular names or names borrowed from terrestrial animals, such as mule, wolf or “sea toad”
Synonyms of toad
Forms of toad
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | toads |
| alternative form (obsolete) | tode |
| alternative form (archaic, dialectal) | twoad |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | toads |
| present participle | toading |
| past participle | toaded |
| past | toaded |
Origin of toad
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.
Words formed from toad
- African clawed toad
- African common toad
- African giant toad
- African tree toad
- Alajuela toad
- Almirante Trail toad
- Amargosa toad
- American toad
- Apennine yellow-bellied toad
- Arizona toad
- arroyo toad
- Asian common toad
- black toad
- bombinator toad
- burrowing toad
- Canadian toad
- cane toad
- Central American toad
- Colorado River toad
- common toad
- crucifix toad
- European toad
- fire-bellied toad spp.)
- Fowler's toad
- frog and toad
- golden toad
- Great Plains toad
- green toad
- Gulf Coast toad
- guttural toad
- hoptoad
- horned toad
- horny toad
- Houston toad
- marine toad
- mephitic toad
- midwife toad
- Monte Verde toad
- narrow-mouthed toad
- North American toad
- oak toad
- obstetrical toad
- obstetric toad
- odious as a toad
- orange toad
- ornate horned toad
- pebble toad
- pode
- red-spotted toad
- red toad trillium
- rush toad
- sea toad
- shelt-toad
- shield-toad
- Sonoran Desert toad
- South American toad
- southern toad
- spadefoot toad
- strange-horned toad
- Surinam toad
Phrases with toad
Words that rhyme with toad
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- abode
- bode
- choad
- corrode
- encode
- goad
- antipode
- decode
- episode
- erode
- forebode
- hoed
- incommode
- overrode
- recode
- rode
- strode
- throwed
- unicode
- woad
- 'splode
- bestowed
- cestode
- chode
- crowed
- discommode
- glode
- Gold Code
- grode
- growed
- hode
- I'll be blowed
- lowed
- mowed
- nuclear code
- ode
- owed
- shode
- side road
- Spanish Road
- stroad
- subnode
- tode
- toed
- towed
- Union Road
- uudecode
- uuencode
Questions about toad
- What does toad mean?
- Toad means an amphibian, a kind of frog (broad sense, order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae.
- What is toad in Hindi?
- Toad in Hindi is भेक (bhek). See Toad meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is toad?
- Toad can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce toad?
- Toad is pronounced /toʊd/ (US).
- What is the plural of toad?
- The plural of toad is toads.
Words near toad in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: toad (page history and authors); toad (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); toad (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); toad (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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