The word 'toad' is a correct and commonly used word in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a small, amphibious animal with a squat body, short legs, and rough, warty skin. It is often used in nature writing, storytelling, and scientific contexts. Example: "As I walked through the swamp, I couldn't help but notice a large toad hopping across the path, its bulging eyes and bumpy skin making it almost camouflaged among the foliage."
More's description of him, laced with Tudor contempt for the physically imperfect – "little of stature, ill-fetured of limmes, croke-backed" – informed the lines Shakespeare gives to Queen Margaret, who calls him a "poisonous bunch back'd toad" and a "bottled spider".
He has circumvented the state monopoly on television news and made a large hole in a seemingly solid political system which he has ridiculed as a "toad sitting on an oil vent".
Toad strikes back Time for a little ginger Reprints Related items Local election results: A plague on all your housesMay 9th 2002That helps to explain why public support for assemblies increases with distance from London (see map).
Toad strikes back Time for a little ginger Reprints Related items British broadcasting: Free TVMay 9th 2002 Digital broadcasting: Used spectrum, anybody?May 9th 2002The draft bill also ditches a separate rule that stops non-European companies buying into British broadcasting.
Or it could have just swallowed a cane toad.
Toad strikes back Time for a little ginger Reprints Related items Road pricing: Charging by satelliteMay 9th 2002 Mods and middle-managersAug 3rd 2000Those who engage in this ingenious, if nefarious, dodge also remove their vehicle's tax disc, the only other means of identification, claiming by way of defence that if they left it on the bike it would be stolen.
But one day Mr Jackson, a "fat-voiced" toad, arrives and makes himself at home, lounging in the rocking chair and putting his feet on the fender.
THE opening scene of the cult Australian film adaptation of the book "He Died With a Felafel in His Hand" depicts a cane toad being used in place of the ball in a backyard golf shot.
Two versions of Lorre face each other in uneasy connection: there's the respected Brechtian actor Peter Lorre (rhymes with "Gomorrah") versus Peter Lorre (rhymes with "sorry"), Hollywood's simulacrum of everything foreign, alien and fascinatingly toad-like.
If we started running down the list of opinion-news anchors who shouldn't be on the air...or even entire networks...10 31: I think Keith Olberman just called Michele Bachmann a "hypno-toad".
Dropped you off in Toad Creek and made it look like a rape and murder.Charming, yes.
