crapaud

American  

[kra-poh, krap-oh] / kræˈpoʊ, ˈkræp oʊ /

noun

1. a species of large frog, Leptodactylus pentadactylus, resembling a bullfrog, inhabiting South and Central America, and having deep orange or red coloring on the legs and sides during the breeding season, the rest of the body being dark-green or brown with black markings.

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crapaud British  

/ ˈkræpəʊ, ˈkrɑː- /

noun

1. a frog or toad

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Etymology

Origin of crapaud

< French: toad, Old French crapot, perhaps < Germanic *krappa hook ( see grape, grapnel), in reference to its hooklike feet; for -aud, see ribald

Example Sentences

It looks like a frog or toad, which is crapaud in French.

From National Geographic • Sep. 16, 2017

He's no scholar, but he is a match for any French general that ever swallowed the English for fricassee de crapaud.

From The Virginians by Thackeray, William Makepeace

It is a cross-breed between what the French call a crapaud and we an easy-chair.

From Fragments of an Autobiography by Moscheles, Felix

Is she amusing herself with quoits, or the jeu du crapaud, or pitch and toss?

From A Second Book of Operas by Krehbiel, Henry Edward

He called Blowitz a "crapaud de Bohème," which Escott afterwards quoted from me in the World, I think.

From The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 1 by Gwynn, Stephen Lucius