toad-in-the-hole

1. 1.

   sausage baked in batter

   Broaderpastry

Questions about toad-in-the-hole

What does toad-in-the-hole mean?

toad-in-the-hole means "sausage baked in batter".

How many syllables are in toad-in-the-hole?

toad-in-the-hole has 6 syllables: to-a-d-in--the--ho-le. The stress falls on "the-".

Is toad-in-the-hole a common word?

toad-in-the-hole is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.