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アナグラム

• do't, Dot, DTO, OTD, ODT, dot, DoT, DOT

語源 1

From 中期英語 tod, of unknown origin. Possibly influenced by Etymology 2, due to its bushy tail.

名詞

tod (plural tods)

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

同意語

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

上位語

• (male fox): fox

等位語

• (male fox): vixen (“female fox”)

派生語

関連する語

• Todd
• todd

参照

語源 2

Late 中期英語, 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).

名詞

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, 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], “March. Ægloga Tertia.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC:

     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:

     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, page 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, page 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.

動詞

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

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

参考

• on one's tod (etymologically unrelated)

アナグラム

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