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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
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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