spring peeper

noun

noun

Etymology Because it peeps (makes a sound) in the spring (the season).

A small chorus frog of North America (Pseudacris crucifer).

It was May before the skunk cabbage began to push up through the ooze of the swamps, before the rhubarb reddened to the back corner of the garden and the spring peepers finally emerged and began abrading the edges of the night with their lovesick vibrato.1993, TC Boyle, The Road to Wellville, Penguin, published 1994, page 297:

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