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
That hoptoad didn't wait to make sure that bumble-bee was good to eat; he took it for granted, and was sorry afterward.
From The Portygee by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
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 Bates, Katharine Lee
They looked all around them for something to capture, but all that they saw was an old lady hoptoad, going home from market.
From Bully and Bawly No-Tail by Wisa, Louis
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