Definition of Hopdog

1. the tussock-moth caterpillar [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hopdog

hop pole
hop to it
hop up
hopak
hopaks
hopane
hopanes
hopanoid
hopanoids
hopback
hopbacks
hopbind
hopbinds
hopbine
hopbines
hopdog (current term)
hopdogs
hope
hope against hope
hope chest
hope chests
hoped
hoped-for
hoped for
hopeful
hopefull
hopefuller
hopefullest
hopefully
hopefulness

Literary usage of Hopdog

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. P's & Q's: Or, The Question of Putting Upon by Charlotte Mary Yonge (1881)
"Horace declared he was just as good as a real silkworm, and that he would wind off the hopdog cocoons and get them woven,—they would be a new sort of silk, ..."

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