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toad (tōd)

noun

  1. any of several families of tailless, leaping anuran amphibians (esp. family Bufonidae) with a rough, warty skin: normally they eat insects and live on moist land but when breeding they live in water
  2. a person regarded as loathsome, contemptible, etc.

Etymology: ME tode, var. of tadde < OE tadde, tadige

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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