Tod vs Tot - What's the difference?
tod | tot |
A fox.
* Ben Jonson
* Richard Adams, The Plague Dogs
# A male fox; a dog; a reynard.
Someone like a fox; a crafty person.
A bush; used especially of ivy .
* '', Act 4, Scene 2, 1997 , Lois Potter (editor), ''The Two Noble Kinsmen ,
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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,
* 1882 , James Edwin Thorold Rogers, A History of Agriculture and Prices in England , Volume 4, p. 209:
(obsolete) To weigh; to yield in tods.
A small child.
A measure of spirits, especially rum.
* 1897: Mary H. Kingsley, Travels in West Africa
* 1916: Siegfried Sassoon, The Working Party
(UK, dialect, dated) A foolish fellow.
To sum or total.
Tot is a related term of tod.
As nouns the difference between tod and tot
is that tod is a fox while tot is a small child.As verbs the difference between tod and tot
is that tod is to weigh; to yield in tods while tot is to sum or total.tod
English
Etymology 1
Origin unknown.Noun
(en noun)- the wolf, the tod , the brock
- Who am Ah? Ah'm tod , whey Ah'm tod, ye knaw. Canniest riever on moss and moor!
Etymology 2
Apparently cognate with East Frisian .Noun
(en noun)page 277,
- His head's yellow, / Hard-haired, and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods , / Not to undo with thunder.
- The ivy tod is heavy with snow.
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.
- Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone.
Verb
(todd)Anagrams
* English terms with unknown etymologies ----tot
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- He learned to run when he was just a tot .
- Then I give them a tot of rum apiece, as they sit huddled in their blankets.
- And tot of rum to send him warm to sleep.
- (Halliwell)