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
Ain't he cute squattin' there all same hoptoad and a-workin' away two-handed?
From The Heart of the Range by White, William Patterson
On the afternoon of that same day, Marmaduke was sitting like a hoptoad, watching the Toyman dig post-holes in the brook pasture.
From Half-Past Seven Stories by Anderson, Robert Gordon
Then Uncle Wiggily looked down in the grass, and he saw a mamma hoptoad and a whole lot of her little toads hopping along.
From Uncle Wiggily's Travels by Garis, Howard Roger
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