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Definition of Polliwig
1. n. A tadpole; -- called also purwiggy and porwigle.
Definition of Polliwig
1. Noun. Variant of polliwog. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Polliwig
1. pollywog [n -S] - See also: pollywog
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polliwig
Literary usage of Polliwig
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of the Cleveland Dialect: Explanatory, Derivative, and Critical by John Christopher Atkinson (1868)
"... and polliwig (the latter is the Essex name also) ; and Moor as adducing ...
name—rather a Suffolk name, as polliwig is also current in that county. ..."
2. Americanisms: The English of the New World by Maximilian Schele De Vere (1872)
"... polliwig, .the name of a tadpole, as used by Forby, and frequently quoted,
appears in America very generally as pollywog, removing.it thus farther from ..."
3. The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the by Robert Forby (1830)
"It is from periwig, and polliwig is a licentious corruption of it. Certainly one
of the little animals bears as much resemblance to that antiquated article ..."
4. The Vocabulary of East Anglia: An Attempt to Record the Vulgar Tongue of the by Robert Forby (1830)
"It is from periwig, and polliwig is a licentious corruption of it. Certainly one
of the little animals bears as much resemblance to that antiquated article ..."
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