- 1（英式俚語）自己一個人、獨自；只用在 on your tod 這個固定說法裡
This is a piece of British slang that only ever appears inside one fixed phrase: 'on your tod', meaning on your own, by yourself, with nobody else there. You change the word in the middle to match the person — on my tod, on his tod, on her tod, on their tod. It comes from rhyming slang: 'on your Tod Sloan' rhymes with 'own', and Tod Sloan was a famous American jockey around 1900. Speakers it to just 'tod', and now almost nobody who uses it remembers the jockey at all. It carries a small feeling of being left alone — 'I ended up on my tod all evening' sounds a bit sorry for itself, which is part of why people like it. It is informal, quite British, and sounds older; you will hear it from London speakers and in British TV, but rarely from young people, and almost never in the US. Outside this phrase, 'tod' by itself has no everyday meaning in modern English, so do not try to use it alone.
組成Shortened from the rhyming-slang phrase 'on your Tod Sloan', where Tod Sloan (a well-known jockey) rhymes with 'own'. The rhyme is the whole trick: tod = own.
原始詞典資料15 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
TODname
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A digital video format by JVC.
Todname/tɒd/
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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. […]
- The Daily Mail article describes Joe Strachan: ...a wealthy U.S. former sales director who decided to settle in Tod with his Scottish wife, after many years in California.
todnoun詞源 1/tɒd/
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A male fox.
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A fox in general.
- Who am Ah? Ah'm tod, whey Ah'm tod, ye knaw. Canniest riever on moss and moor!
- 3
Someone like a fox; a crafty person.
todnoun詞源 2/tɒd/
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A bush, especially of ivy.
- His head's yellow, / Hard-haired, and curled, thick-twined like ivy tods, / Not to undo with thunder.
- For birds in bushes tooting: At length within the Ivy tod
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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.
- Generally, however, the stone or petra, almost always of 14 lbs., is used, the tod of 28 lbs., and the sack of thirteen stone.
todverb詞源 2/tɒd/
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obsoleteTo weigh; to yield in tods.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
- time of death
- top of descent
- transfer on death
- time-on-device
- transit-oriented development
- Todd
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