Toadとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 tode, toode, tadde, tade, from 古期英語 *tāde, a shortened variant of 古期英語 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”), 古期英語 tāxe (“toad”), 古期英語 tosca (“toad”) by contrast.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /toʊd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /təʊd/
• 韻: -əʊd
• 異形同音異義語: toed, towed

名詞

toad (plural toads)

1. An amphibian, a kind of frog (broad sense, order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae.

   Hypernyms: anuran, batrachian, frog (broad sense) < lissamphibian < amphibian < vertebrate < animal < organism < creature

   Coordinate terms: frog (narrow sense), salamander, newt

   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 149:

     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.

   • 1971, Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger & John Densmore, "Riders on the Storm", The Doors, L.A. Woman.

     There's a killer on the road / His brain is squirmin' like a toad

   • 2026 June, John Craven, “This unsung, unpaid army of workers is vital for rural Britain”, in BBC Countryfile, number 243, page 21:

     Perhaps the largest number of volunteers — more than 33,000 of them — support the Wildlife Trusts on 2,600 nature reserves. But scattered around the country are smaller, specialist teams such as the Charlcombe Toad Rescue Group, near Bath. More than 50 volunteers wearing high-vis jackets and carrying torches and buckets spent 600 hours this year helping 1,547 toads and many other amphibians to safely cross Charlcombe Lane on their way to their breeding lake. From toads to towpaths, the unsung and committed efforts of our rural volunteers play a very large role in keeping our countryside looking how we all want it to look. Let's salute them.

2. (derogatory) A contemptible or unpleasant person.
3. (derogatory) An ugly person.

同意語

• (amphibian): pad, paddock

派生語

参考

• amphibian
• frog
• frosh/frosk
• paddock
• tadpole

動詞

toad (third-person singular simple present toads, present participle toading, simple past and past participle toaded)

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

アナグラム

• DOTA, Dato, DotA, Dota, doat