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哈喽 小伙伴们 ，今天给大家科普一个小知识。在日常生活中我们或多或少的都会接触到toad是什么意思_toad的用法方面的一些说法，有的小伙伴还不是很了解，今天就给大家详细的介绍一下关于toad是什么意思_toad的用法的相关内容。

一、toad是什么意思

1、toad 蟾蜍

2、来自中古英语 tode,蟾蜍，来自古英语 tadie,蟾蜍，词源同 tadpole.

二、toad的用法

1、toad

2、toad: [OE] Toad is a mystery word, with no known relatives in any other Indo-European language. Of its derivatives, toady [19] is short for the earlier toad eater ‘sycophant’ [17]. This originated in the dubious selling methods of itinerant quack doctors. They employed an assistant who pretended to eat a toad (toads were thought to be poisonous), so that the quack could appear to effect a miraculous cure with his medicine.The toad-eating assistant came to be a byword for ‘servility’ or ‘dependency’, and hence for ‘servile flattery’. Toadstools [14] were named for their stool-like shape, and also because of an association between poisonous fungi and the supposedly poisonous toad.

3、toad (n.)

4、c. 1300, from late Old English tadige, tadie, of unknown origin and according to OED with no known cognates outside English. Applied to loathsome persons from 1560s. Toad-strangler"heavy rain"is from 1919, U.S. Southern dialectal.

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