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tod¹

  • /tɒd/ UK
  • /tɑd/ US

Sounds like Todd · Rhymes with -ɒd, -ɑːd

Where it comes from

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

noun tods

  1. A male fox.

    Similar: dog-fox, reynard

  2. Scotland A fox in general. 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.

tod²

  • /tɒd/ UK
  • /tɑd/ US

Sounds like Todd · Rhymes with -ɒd, -ɑːd

Where it comes from

Late Middle English, of uncertain origin, but possibly from the same source as German Zotte (“clotted hair”), which see. Also cognate with Saterland Frisian todde (“bundle”), Swedish todd (“mass (of wool)”, dialectal).

noun tods

  1. A bush, especially of ivy. His head's yellow, / Hard-haired, and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods, / Not to undo with thunder.
  2. An old English measure of weight, usually of wool, containing two stone or 28 pounds (13 kg). 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.

verb tods · todding · todded

  1. obsolete To weigh; to yield in tods.

Tod³

  • /tɒd/ UK
  • /tɑd/ US

Rhymes with -ɒd

proper noun

  1. colloquial Todmorden. The Todmorden News carried the comment endorsing that decision: 'This should now send Sainsbury's a clear signal, should they appeal, that they are not welcome in Tod. […]
  2. alternative Alternative form of Todd

TOD⁴

noun TODs · ToD · T.O.D. · T.o.D. · T. O. D. · T. o. D.

  1. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of time of death “Now maybe I can get the bodies to the morgue and determine TOD.”
  2. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of top of descent
  3. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of transfer on death (the account has a beneficiary).
  4. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of time-on-device
  5. abbreviation, countable, initialism, uncountable Initialism of transit-oriented development

proper noun ToD · T.O.D. · T.o.D. · T. O. D. · T. o. D.

  1. A digital video format by JVC.

ToD⁵

noun ToDs

  1. alternative Alternative form of TOD

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: dot, ivy, tsd, killing, death, demise, diskette, pul, tsi, ast, deaths, sdt, tsis, dog-fox, todd, dogfox

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@misc{tod_2026,
  title = {tod},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tod},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}