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hoptoad

by 1827, American English, from hop (v.) + toad.

Usage examples of "hoptoad".

He let out a scream that shook the Hoptoad from the stern to the bow and could be heard on ships within a fifty-mile radius.

Pippi Goes on Board On a beautiful morning the Hoptoad sailed into the harbor decorated with flags and pennants from end to end.

All three of them were standing at the rail of the Hoptoad while the brisk night air filled the sails.

Pippi guided the Hoptoad with a sure hand past the most perilous underwater reefs and the worst breakers.

Two hours later the Hoptoad made for a little inlet on the left side of the island.

The crew of the Hoptoad also had their huts where they lived while the ship lay anchored in the little inlet.

The Kurrekurredutts lighted a huge fire in the royal square, and King Efraim and Pippi and Tommy and Annika and the crew from the Hoptoad sat down in the grass and watched the Kurrekurredutts dance around the fire.

And when the canoes came gliding in to the little inlet beside the Hoptoad a short time later, the whole crowd of children was there to greet them.

She brought along one of the barrels from the Hoptoad and crawled into it.

Of course, for Momo and Moana and the other Kurrekurredutt children it was a sad day when they saw Pippi and Tommy and Annika go on board the Hoptoad for the voyage home.

After a while he just jumped, six, eight times in a row, in glee, like a kid playing Hoptoad Hoptoad Call My Hoptoad.

There was some milling about when they were all raised up, with much talk, before Hafnor flicked himself away to the north, hoptoad, to see what moved against us.

They looked all around them for something to capture, but all that they saw was an old lady hoptoad, going home from market.

Hafnor flicked himself away to the north, hoptoad, to see what moved against us.

And in one cardboard box he always had some of them little hoptoads, and in another cardboard box he always had some crickets-- sometimes I wonder how that kid could sleep at night, with all that racket in his room.