Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

θ	thin	ð	this	ʃ	she	ʒ	measure
tʃ	church	dʒ	judge	ŋ	sing	j	yes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

-s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
-ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
-ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

toadfish

noun

Forms toadfishes

noun Any fish of the genus Lophius.
noun Any of the ray-finned fishes of family Batrachoididae of benthic ambush predators.
noun Banded toadfish, of Australia (Torquigener pleurogramma).
noun Blackspotted toadfish, of the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans (Arothron nigropunctatus).
noun Common toadfish (or toadfish), of Australia and New Zealand (Tetractenos hamiltoni).
noun Prickly toadfish, of Australia and New Zealand (Contusus richei).
noun Red striped toadfish, of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (Dichotomyctere erythrotaenia, syn. Tetraodon erythrotaenia).
noun Smooth toadfish, of Australia (Tetractenos glaber).

Synonyms

From toad + fish, in reference to their toadlike appearance.

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 — from the Wiktionary entry “toadfish”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details