tod

• (UK) IPA^(key): /tɒd/

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• Rhymes: -ɒd
• Rhymes: -ɑːd

Homophone: Todd

From Middle English tod, of unknown origin. Possibly influenced by Etymology 2, due to its bushy tail.[1]

tod (plural tods)

1. A male fox.
2. (chiefly Scotland) A fox in general.
   • c. 1620-1625, Ben Jonson, Pan's Anniversary

     the wolf, the tod, the brock

   • 1977, Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs

     Who am Ah? Ah'm tod, whey Ah'm tod, ye knaw. Canniest riever on moss and moor!

3. (figuratively) Someone like a fox; a crafty person.

• (male fox): dog-fox
• (fox): reynard

• (male fox): fox

• (male fox): vixen (“female fox”)

• Todd
• todd

Cognate with German Zotte (“clotted hair”), Saterland Frisian todde (“bundle”), Swedish todd (“mass (of wool)”, dialectal).

tod (plural tods)

1. A bush, especially of ivy.
   • 1613–1614 (date written), John Fletcher; William Shak[e]speare, The Two Noble Kinsmen: […], London: […] Tho[mas] Cotes, for Iohn Waterson; […], published 1634, OCLC 1170464517, Act I, scene iv, page 2:

     His head's yellow, / Hard-haired, and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods, / Not to undo with thunder.

   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Marche. Aegloga Tertius.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], OCLC 606515406; reprinted as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, The Shepheardes Calender […], London: John C. Nimmo, […], 1890, OCLC 890162479:

     For birds in bushes tooting:
     At length within the Ivy tod

   • 1797–1798 (date written)​, [Samuel Taylor Coleridge], “The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere”, in Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, London: […] J[ohn] & A[rthur] Arch, […], published 1798, OCLC 1071922407:

     The ivy tod is heavy with snow.

2. An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, containing two stone or 28 pounds (13 kg).
   • 1843, The Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, Volume 27, p. 202:

     Seven pounds make a clove, 2 cloves a stone, 2 stone a tod, 6 1/2 tods a wey, 2 weys a sack, 12 sacks a last. [...] It is to be observed here that a sack is 13 tods, and a tod 28 pounds, so that the sack is 364 pounds.

   • 1882, James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England, Volume 4, p. 209:

     Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone.

tod (third-person singular simple present tods, present participle todding, simple past and past participle todded)

1. (obsolete) To weigh; to yield in tods.

• DOT, DTO, Dot, ODT, OTD, do't, dot

tod d (plural tora ɦa)

1. baobab

• Bakabima, Koulon Stéphane; Nicole, Jacques (2018) Nawdm-French Dictionary‎, SIL International

• dot, doth

From Proto-Germanic *dauþuz, akin to Old Saxon dōth, Old Dutch dōth, dōt, Old English dēaþ, Old Norse dauði, Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌿𐍃 (dauþus).

tōd m

1. death, cessation of life

• tōt

• Middle High German: tōt
  • Alemannic German:

    Swabian: Daod, Dod

  • Central Franconian:

    Hunsrik: Dod

  • German: Tod
  • Luxembourgish: Doud
  • Yiddish: טויט‎ (toyt)

• IPA^(key): /tod/

tod m or f sg

1. Apocopic form of todo or toda; all
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 42v.

     […] ſobre tod eſto dare amoab en uŕa mano e crebantaredes todas cibdades en caſtelladas entodos los arbores fermoſos todas las fontanas del agua cerraredes. entodas las buenas ſénas abatredes e fizieron aſſi.

     “‘ […] And besides all this I will deliver Moab into your hands. And you will break every fortified city and every beautiful tree and every fountain of water you will stop up and every field you will ruin.’” And so they did.

• IPA^(key): /tòːt/, /tóːt/

tọ̄d

1. (clarification of this definition is needed) thus

• “tod”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran