hoptoad
Americannoun
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Origin of hoptoad
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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
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 Eugene Field
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 Katharine Lee Bates
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 Howard Roger Garis
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