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Definition of Pollywog
1. Noun. A larval frog or toad.
Group relationships: Amphibia, Class Amphibia
Generic synonyms: Larva
Definition of Pollywog
1. n. A polliwig.
Definition of Pollywog
1. Noun. (zoology) A polliwog. ¹
2. Noun. (sailing slang) A sailor who has not yet crossed the equator. ¹
3. Noun. (NZ slang ethnic slur offensive) A person of Polynesian (usually Samoan) descent (Poly + wog). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pollywog
1. polliwog [n -S] - See also: polliwog
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pollywog
Literary usage of Pollywog
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cap and Gown: Third Series by R. L. Paget, John Erskine (1902)
"... As happy as he well could be, A pollywog did dwell. He played with minnows
all day long, And thought he was a fish, Until he saw a small boy swim; ..."
2. Out West: A Magazine of the Old Pacific and the New by Charles Fletcher Lummis, Archaeological Institute of America Southwest Society, Sequoya League (1908)
"Girls might come into his life, and girls might go; but could he ever forget Aunt
Zenia, who had made fudge for him and for pollywog in the dear old days at ..."
3. The Nursery (1869)
"The pollywog does not stay a pollywog long. By and by, a front leg appears on
one side of the pollywog • and then he cannot steer straight, ..."
4. My Diary in America in the Midst of War by George Augustus Sala (1865)
"Put how long does it take to transform the zealous denouncer of abuses into the
office-holding "pollywog"? Not long, I am afraid. END OF VOL. ..."
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