a. rare. [f. TOAD sb. + -ISH1.] Of the nature of a toad; like a toad; † venomous.

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1611.  A. Stafford, Niobe, II. 76. Your toadish tongue would neuer haue sought to haue enuenom’d Vertue.

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1665.  Sir T. Herbert, Trav. (1677), 384. A speckl’d toadish or poyson fish as the Seamen from experience named it.

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1822.  Beddoes, Bride’s Trag., II. iv. Something hath called me thrice, With a low muttering voice of toadish hisses.

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