Definition of Toadish

1. a. Like a toad.

Definition of Toadish

1. Adjective. (obsolete) Like a toad. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Toadish

1. resembling a toad [adj] - See also: toad

Lexicographical Neighbors of Toadish

toad-strangler
toad frog
toad in the hole
toad lily
toad rush
toad skin
toadeaters
toadfish
toadfishes
toadflax
toadflaxes
toadhead
toadied
toadies
toadish (current term)
toadless
toadlet
toadlets
toadlike
toadly
toadrush
toads
toads in the hole
toadshade
toadskin
toadskins
toadsticker
toadstickers
toadstone

Literary usage of Toadish

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"Ill search the room, something hath called me thrice, With a low muttering voice of toadish hisses, And thrice I slept again. But still it came Nearer and ..."

2. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1860)
"They might have dispensed with the toadish imps and not have injured their work thereby. We don't mean to apply this, in this instance, to our author : he ..."

3. The Book Buyer by Charles Scribner's Sons (1898)
"From the hail of projectiles there is safety only in the underground railway and the Thames, though the latter is scalding hot if one of the toadish, ..."

4. The Edinburgh Literary Journal; Or, Weekly Register of Criticism and Belles by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1830)
"... out the sable toadish »lime, Whence issued once я stream of honied sound ; And yet this bony cell of foul corruption Was once the nursery of celestial ..."

5. A Narrative of the Confinement and Exile of William Steel Dickson, D. D by William Steel Dickson (1812)
"Yet, even this well-earned popularity was weakened by a toadish coldness, and haughty distance of deportment, which disgusted and alienated many, ..."

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