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Toadfish
Answer for the clue "Toadfish ", 4 letters:
sapo
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Sapo is the Portuguese and Spanish word for toad . It may also refer to: Mount Sapo , fictitious mountain in Italy Mount Sapo (Cerro Sapo), a mountain in Cochabamba Department , Bolivia Mount Sapo (Cerro Sapo), a mountain in Darién Province , Panama Sapo ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Toadfish \Toad"fish`\, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any marine fish of the genus Batrachus , having a large, thick head and a wide mouth, and bearing some resemblance to a toad. The American species ( Batrachus tau ) is very common in shallow water. Called also oyster ...
Usage examples of sapo.
A big-bellied man called El Sapo had taken control of the landing party, setting up a tent and preparing for the night.
The cook gave him a ladle of yellow synthetic mush from the supper kettle and El Sapo tossed him a blanket, but nobody talked to him.
El Sapo had left him out of the gang of axemen sent upriver to begin cutting timber for their first building, but he was allowed to ride the floating logs down the stream and roll them back into the channel when they ran aground.
El Sapo was careful to see that they got a fair share of the limited food and gear, but his mistrust had been contagious.
As happy as she was, El Sapo detailed men to move them there, with a tiny tent, a few simple tools, and their fair share of the rationed food.
El Sapo and his followers still near the pad, locked in a hostile confrontation with El Jefe, the new leader of the premen.
The men were long-bearded and the women bedraggled, all of them pinched from starvation, but El Sapo was trying to assert his old authority.
Now, squeaky-voiced with alarm, he was demanding information about where El Sapo had been.
El Sapo kept insisting that he had been risking himself and his friends for the benefit of all, with no intention of deserting.
El Sapo and Jesus Cabrito were probably still squabbling for domination, but neither would love the unborn ultiman.
In the face of a mounting body of evidence Holmer, discredited, was replaced by an attorney-general who refused, consistently, to give hearing to any statement that threatened to contradict the official line: all enquiry would be secret, and conducted by the secret police, the Sapo known for detestation of all that Palme stood for.
But it would be infinitely easier to check with every one of them than to have to bed that criadero de sapos of a comandante.