Noun
A female toad.
Usage- Rare
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Taking a hoe this morning, (could find no spade but the ace,) I exhumed a toadess, perhaps a widow, living all by herself, in underground lodgings, as widows have done, and will do, again and again, till there is no such thing as widowdom in the world.
The toad likes cool, moist earth, neither muddy nor dusty, and just after a shower, when the roads are just properly moistened, the little toads and toadesses go forth to promenade and enlarge their acquaintance with the world beyond the cabbage-leaf of their nativity.
They [toads] lead a very retired and pensive life during the day, behind stun walls, but when twilight begins tew dress for the night, then the toads and toadesses begin to reconnoiter round.
I do know that all the respectable toads and toadesses of my acquaintance always went down in family parties into the water and there brought forth a respectable and legitimate family of tadpoles.
“A toad’s highest idea of beauty is a toadess;” says another [proverb].
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[T]hey […] stuffed their faces into the grass, shaking uncontrollably, silently. What could they see? […] Some animal? ‘And from his queer abode came forth giant toad, a toadess in a bodice.’
As the saying goes, “I’ve kissed many toadesses in my time, but I finally found a princess.”
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3 hideous L[on]d[o]n toadesses looking for 3 dashing princes for fun, wine & magik.
i am not a prince in disguise / i’m merely a toad / looking for a toadess / to undress // rose / taking kindly to a croaking toad / decided / to assist in his search / for an undressed frog