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
Among her many lovers were the south wind and the fairy Dewlove and the little elf-prince Beambright and the hoptoad, whom all the rest called Mr. Roughbrown.
From The Holy Cross and Other Tales by Field, Eugene
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
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
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