toad

參見：töad

英語

Two common toads (Bufo bufo spinosus)

替代寫法

• tode (棄用)
• twoad (古舊，方言)

詞源

來自中古英語 tode、toode、tadde、tade，來自古英語 *tāde，古英語 tādie的短形式異體，tādiġe (「蟾蜍」)。對照古英語 tāxe (「蟾蜍」)。

與低地蘇格蘭語 tade、taid、taed、ted (「蟾蜍」)同源。對照丹麥語 tudse (「蟾蜍」)，可能起源自同一古老詞根；也對照瑞典語 tåssa、tossa (「蟾蜍」)、古英語 tāxe (「蟾蜍」)、古英語 tosca (「蟾蜍」)。

發音

• (通用美式) 國際音標^(幫助): /toʊd/
• (標準英音) 國際音標^(幫助): /təʊd/

• 音頻 (英國)：

  (檔案)

• 韻部：-əʊd
• 同音詞：toed, towed

名詞

toad (複數 toads)

1. 蟾蜍
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, 譯者 H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales，第 149 頁:

     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.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

   • 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

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

2. (貶義) 卑鄙或使人不快的人。
3. (貶義) 外表醜陋的人

同義詞

(蟾蜍)：

• pad
• paddock

衍生詞

• Amargosa toad (Anaxyrus nelsoni)
• American toad (Anaxyrus americanus)
• Arizona toad (Anaxyrus microscaphus)
• arroyo toad (Anaxyrus californicus)
• black toad (Anaxyrus exsul)
• burrowing toads (Rhinophrynus spp.)
• Canadian toad (Anaxyrus hemiophrys)
• Central American toads (Ollotis spp.)
• cane toad (Rhinella marina)
• Colorado River toad (Ollotis alvaria)
• European toad (Bufo bufo)
• fire-bellied toad (Bombina) spp.)
• Fowler's toad (Anaxyrus fowleri)
• frog and toad
• Great Plains toad (Anaxyrus cognatus)
• Gulf Coast toad (Ollotis nebulifer)
• green toad (Anaxyrus debilis)
• horned toad (Ceratophrys)
• Houston toad (Anaxyrus houstonensis)
• marine toad (Rhinella marina)
• mephitic toad (Bufo calamita)
• narrow-mouthed toads (Gastrophryne)
• North American toads (Anaxyrus spp.)
• oak toad (Anaxyrus quercicus)
• pebble toad (Oreophrynella nigra)
• red-spotted toad (Anaxyrus punctatus)
• rush toad (Bufo calamita)
• sea toad
• Sonoran Desert toad (Ollotis alvaria)
• South American toads (Rhinella spp.)
• southern toad (Anaxyrus terrestris)
• Texas toad (Anaxyrus speciosus)
• toad bug (Gelastocoridae spp.)
• toad rush (Juncus bufonius)
• toadfish
• toad-in-the-hole
• toadlike
• toadstool
• toad-strangler
• toady
• tree toad (Pedostibes)
• walking toad (Bufo calamita)
• western toad (Anaxyrus boreas)
• Woodhouse's toad (Anaxyrus woodhousii)
• Wyoming toad (Anaxyrus baxteri)
• Yosemite toad (Anaxyrus canorus)

參見

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

動詞

toad (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 toads，現在分詞 toading，一般過去時及過去分詞 toaded)

1. (網際網路，非正式，及物) 將玩家從MUD等遊戲系統中永久驅逐

異序詞

• DOTA, Dato, DotA, Dota, doat

愛沙尼亞語

名詞

toad

1. tuba 的主格複數