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noun

Crapaud n. (Written also crapawd, crapald, crepaud, etc)

A toad. (Obs.)

As a proper name, Johnny Crapaud, or Crapaud, a nickname for a Frenchman.

Large toothed frog of South and Central America (Leptodactylus pentadactylus) resembling the bullfrog.

Synonyms: South American bullfrog, Leptodactylus pentadactylus.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Crapaud" Quotes from Famous Books

... famous runner, his coat smooth as satin. Hay went rapidly from stall to stall. Of the six saddlers owned by him not one gave the faintest sign of having been used over night, but Webb, riding through the gangway, noted that "Crapaud," the French halfbreed grooming in the third stall, never lifted his head. Whatever evidence of night riding that might earlier have existed had been deftly groomed away. The trader had seen suspicion in the soldier's eye, and ...

— A Daughter of the Sioux - A Tale of the Indian frontier • Charles King

... must be admitted that in one thing Brother Jonathan has very fairly had the conceit taken out of him—which need not have been, had he only attended to the lessons taught him by John Bull and Jean Crapaud. ...

— Continental Monthly, Vol. I, No. V, May, 1862 - Devoted To Literature And National Policy • Various

... in works of travel, that the French eat frogs," continued the owl. "Aha, my friend Crapaud! are you there? That was a very pretty concert we ...

— The Newcomes • William Makepeace Thackeray

Words linked to "Crapaud" : salientian, anuran, toad, Leptodactylus, batrachian