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
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
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
"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 Stratemeyer, Edward
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