tod

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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] Cognate with Scots tod.

tod (plural tods)

1. (now UK dialect) A fox.
   • 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!

   1. A male fox; a dog; a reynard.
2. Someone like a fox; a crafty person.

• (male fox): dog-fox

• (male fox): fox

• (male fox): vixen (“female fox”)

• Todd
• todd

Apparently cognate with Saterland Frisian todde (“bundle”), Swedish todd (“mass (of wool)”, dialectal).

tod (plural tods)

1. A bush, especially of ivy.
   • Template:RQ:Shakespeare Two Noble Kinsmen
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “March. Ægloga Tertia.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:

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

   • Template:RQ:Coleridge Ancient Mariner

     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

• 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 (in Slovene), 2014–2024