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Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryToad. · A contemptible person; a vile, venomous, or loathsome individual.
From Middle English pode, pod, podde (“toad”), from a merger of Middle English pade, padde (“toad”) + tode (“toad”), equivalent to a blend of pad + toad.
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