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hop-toad U.S.
[hop n.2 or v.1]
A toad.
1827Massachusetts Spy 28 Nov. (Th.), An inhabitant of the Middle States talks of ‘hop-toads’,—as if all toads were not hoppers. 1830F. Trollope in Dom. Manners (1949) 428 Hop toads is little creatures what hop like a frog. 1844Mrs. Stowe Mayflower (1849) 157 I'd always find him stopping to chase hoptoads, or off after chip⁓squirrels. 1847Knickerbocker XXIX. 183, I have so often..a tender leaning towards little pigs and hop toads. 1913G. S. Porter Laddie xiii. I like hop-toads, owls, and shitepokes. 1966J. Dos Passos Best Times (1968) i. 12 We studied with passionate interest the egg⁓laying habits of the hoptoads that shrilled so loud. |