toad

Two common toads (Bufo bufo spinosus)

Meanings

An amphibian, a kind of frog (order Anura) with shorter hindlegs and a drier, wartier skin, many in family Bufonidae.
A contemptible or unpleasant person.
An ugly person.

To expel (a user) permanently from a MUD or similar system, so that their account is deleted.

From Middle English tode, toode, tadde, tade, from Old English *tāde, a shortened variant of Old English tādie, tādiġe. Compare Old English tāxe.
Cognate with Scots tade, taid, taed, ted. Compare also Danish tudse ("toad"), possibly originally from the same prehistoric root; also Swedish tåssa, tossa, Old English tāxe, Old English tosca by contrast.

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