hoptoad
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hoptoad
Example Sentences
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He also made Harry Truman as sore as a hoptoad in a thumbtack factory by suggesting in 1948 that the Democrats ought to get a better presidential candidate.
From Time Magazine Archive
Leo Lionni is a well-known designer and ex-art director, whose collages, this time out, would scare a hoptoad.
From Time Magazine Archive
He didn't sit like a hoptoad any more, but lay on his elbow, and his head nodded—nodded——nodded.
From Half-Past Seven Stories by Robert Gordon Anderson
So the girls ran over to meet their Guardian, and the hoptoad was averted.
From Winona of the Camp Fire by Margaret Widdemer
It was I who ruined this excellent attainment by setting him, beside a pansy-bed agleam with sympathetic twinkles, to guard a hoptoad.
From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Katharine Lee Bates
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