crapaud

[ kra-poh, krap-oh ]

noun

1. a species of large frog, Leptodactylus pentadactylus, resembling a bullfrog, inhabiting South and Central America, and having deep orange or red coloring on the legs and sides during the breeding season, the rest of the body being dark-green or brown with black markings.

crapaud

/ ˈkræpəʊ; ˈkrɑː- /

noun

1. a frog or toad

Word History and Origins

Origin of crapaud¹

< French: toad, Old French crapot, perhaps < Germanic *krappa hook ( grape, grapnel ), in reference to its hooklike feet; for -aud, ribald

Word History and Origins

Origin of crapaud¹

from French: toad

Example Sentences

It looks like a frog or toad, which is crapaud in French.

From National Geographic

Matisse's first bona fide "good armchair" painting arrives in around 1916, when a womb-like crapaud upholstered in pink fabric cocoons a slumbering female model in a green dressing gown.

From The Guardian

Well, now just look where they were fixed by that move, right over the crapauds,—every mother's son o' them Virginians good for a squirrel at fifty yards.

From Project Gutenberg

He spoke in French, and called me 'un petit crapaud,' and asked what I did here!

From Project Gutenberg

This was all I heard distinctly, when every voice joined in one cry, "Tueons le crapaud;" and presently the wretched Indian was kicked and cuffed by as many as could press round him.

From Project Gutenberg