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todd

/tɒd/US/tɑd/

todd is the alternative form of tod.

Meaning of tod

Noun (1)

tod (plural tods)

  1. A male fox.
    Synonyms:
    dog-fox, reynard
  2. (Scotland) A fox in general.
    • Who am Ah? Ah'm tod, whey Ah'm tod, ye knaw. Canniest riever on moss and moor!1977, Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs
  3. (figuratively) Someone like a fox; a crafty person.

Noun (2)

tod (plural tods)

  1. A bush, especially of ivy.
    • His head's yellow, / Hard-haired, and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods, / Not to undo with thunder.1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher, William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, →OCLC, Act I, scene iv, page 2
  2. An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, containing two stone or 28 pounds (13 kg).
    • Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, volume 27, page 202

See all 8 meanings of tod

Proper noun capitalized: Todd

Todd

  1. An English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname from Middle English tod (“fox”).
  2. A male given name transferred from the surname.
    • Do I want this t-shirt with Todd H- of course I do!2019 October 24, ISP, quoting iSorrowproductions, Fallout 4 But I Randomized EVERYTHING
  3. A river in the Northern Territory, Australia; named for early immigrant Alice Bell Todd (wife of astronomer Charles Todd).
  4. A township in Hubbard County, Minnesota.
  5. A ghost town in Morgan County, Missouri; named for postmaster Jonathan Todd.
  6. An unincorporated community in Watauga County and Ashe County, North Carolina; named for American Civil War veteran Joseph Warren Todd.
  7. A township in Fulton County, Pennsylvania.
  8. A township in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.

Forms of todd

Noun
pluraltodds
Proper noun
alternative formTod

Words formed from todd

Words that rhyme with todd

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Questions about todd

What does todd mean?
Todd means an English and Scottish surname transferred from the nickname from Middle English tod (“fox”).
What is todd the alternative form of?
Todd is the alternative form of tod.
What part of speech is todd?
Todd is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce todd?
Todd is pronounced /tɑd/ (US).

Words near todd in the dictionary

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  7. Todd County
  8. Todd's paresis
  9. Todd's syndrome
  10. Todd-AO
  11. toddaculin

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