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Definition of Pollywogs
1. pollywog [n] - See also: pollywog
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pollywogs
Literary usage of Pollywogs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Algonquin Legends of New England: Or, Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac by Charles Godfrey Leland (1884)
"... conquered the Great Bull-Frog, and in what Manner all the pollywogs, Crabs,
Leeches, and other Water Creatures were created, (Passamaquoddy and Micmac. ..."
2. Seed-babies by Margaret Warner Morley (1896)
"After a while they hatched into tadpoles, or pollywogs, as the children called them.
I wonder why things don't hatch right out, instead of hatching into ..."
3. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"(NED) 1835-40 Little ponds.... nothing but pollywogs, tadpoles, ... (NED) 1857
They can talk with you on any subject from cosmogony to pollywogs. ..."
4. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1912)
"What about pollywogs. Do you know anything about them. ... for the pollywogs and
I see on the way home from school this place where the pollywogs grew. 631. ..."
5. Frog Opera: With Pollywog Chorus; a Musical Extravaganza Founded Upon the by Charles Thurber Miller (1880)
"Chorus of pollywogs, Gypsies, Rats and Mice. i ACT I—Banks of the Danube. 1.
Opening Chorus, " Simon says Up " Chorus. 2. ..."
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