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toad (n.)
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.
