toad /tōd/

1. A toothless tailless amphibian (family Bufonidae) with a warty skin that walks or crawls instead of jumping like the frog, esp one belonging to the Bufo or related genus
2. Any of several similar amphibians belonging to different families
3. A hateful or contemptible person or animal
4. Bufo (alchemy)

toadˈy noun

1. A sycophant, an obsequious flatterer
2. A toadfish (Aust informal)

To fawn on and flatter like a sycophant

toadˈyish adjective

toadˈyism noun

toadˈ-eater noun (archaic)

A toady, a fawning sycophant, orig a mountebank's assistant, whose duty was to swallow, or pretend to swallow, toads

toadˈ-eating noun

Sycophancy

adjective

Sycophantic

toadˈfish noun

Any of several toadlike fish of the Batrachoidiae family, with wide mouths, large heads and tapering bodies

toadˈflax noun

Any species of Linaria, a genus closely related to the snapdragon, with flaxlike leaves

toad-in-the-holeˈ noun

A dish orig of beef, now usu sausage meat, cooked in batter

toadˈrush or toadˈgrass noun

A low rush (Juncus bufonius) with mostly solitary flowers

toad spit or toad spittle noun

Cuckoo-spit

toadˈ-spotted adjective

Thickly stained or spotted like a toad

toadˈstone noun

1. A stone formerly believed to be found in a toad's head, and valued as an amulet
2. A basalt lava found in Carboniferous limestone in Derbyshire (so called perhaps because of its toadlike markings, but possibly from German totes Gestein dead stone, from the lead-miner's point of view)

toadˈstool noun

1. Any of several spore-producing, poisonous, umbrella-shaped fungi
2. Any capped fungi incl the edible mushroom and poisonous toadstool (old rare)

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