hop-toadn.
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A toad.
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hop-toad1827
1827 Massachusetts Spy 28 Nov. An inhabitant of the Middle States talks of ‘hop-toads’,—as if all toads were not hoppers.
1830 F. Trollope in Dom. Manners (1949) 428 Hop toads is little creatures what hop like a frog.
1844 H. B. Stowe Mayflower (1849) 157 I'd always find him stopping to chase hoptoads, or off after chip~squirrels.
1861 Knickerbocker Mag. 57 420 Killing flies, or pelting hop-toads.
1913 G. Stratton-Porter Laddie xiii I like hop-toads, owls, and shitepokes.
1966 J. Dos Passos Best Times (1968) i. 12 We studied with passionate interest the egg~laying habits of the hoptoads that shrilled so loud.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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n.1827- to take the view of
- to take the voices
- to take the vows
- to take the wall
- to take the wall of a person
- to take the water
- to take the waters
- to take the way
- to take the weight off
- to take the weight off one's feet
- to take the whiff
- to take the white veil
- to take the will for the deed
- to take the wind out of the sails of
- to take the wire edge off
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- to take the word
- to take the words out of a person's mouth
- to take the worse and leave the better
- to take the worse and scorn the better
- to take the wrong pig by the ear
- to take the wrong pig by the tail
- to take their cloots
- to take things as one finds them
- to take things as they come