hoptoad
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of hoptoad
Example Sentences
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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 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
"I'd just as lief be shot for a mule as for a hoptoad."
From The Rover Boys at Colby Hall or The Struggles of the Young Cadets by Edward Stratemeyer
One day we were sittin' out in the front yard of his house—it's mine, now—watchin' a hoptoad catch flies.
From The Portygee by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
One minute she was jumpin' along amongst them gravestones like a hoptoad with wings, and then—Zing!
From Galusha the Magnificent by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
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