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bullfrog
/ˈbʊlfɹɑɡ/
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What does bullfrog mean?
noun
- Any of various frogs having a croak that resembles the bellow of a cow or bull.
proper noun
- A ghost town in Nye County, Nevada, United States.
- A former mining district of Nye County, Nevada, United States; in full, Bullfrog Mining District
More meanings (3)
proper noun
- A former county of Nye, Nevada, United States; in full, Bullfrog County. Seat: Carson City
- A mountain in the Bullfrog Mining District, Nye County, Nevada, United States, located in the Bullfrog Hills, Mojave Desert; in full, Bullfrog Mountain
- An unincorporated community in Kane County, Utah, United States.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈbʊlfɹɑɡ/
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And thenceforth the words of the song that the bullfrog sang were 'Come, come, in danger come.'
“I--I know you are only a bullfrog, but, be jabbers, that sounded mightily like speech. Wouldn't you please to be saying it over?”
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No signs of life occurred near him, but occasionally the melancholy chirp of a cricket, or perhaps the guttural twang of a bullfrog from a neighboring marsh, as if sleeping uncomfortably and turning suddenly in his bed.
Through the winter it had been the barest and dreariest of places; but now the earliest signs of returning spring were in its martial music, for when the green hyla pipes, and the bullfrog drums, the bird voices soon join them.