polliwog
or pol·ly·wog
a tadpole.
Origin of polliwog
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How to use polliwog in a sentence
The old bachelor don't die at all—he sort of rots away, like a pollywog's tail.
The Complete Works of Artemus Ward | Charles Farrar Browne (AKA Artemus Ward)A native child or pollywog as the Terrans called them was clinging desperately to the teacher's skirt.
Narakan Rifles, About Face! | Jan SmithYou can not get a living pollywog, no more than a living elephant, out of dead protoplasm.
Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith | Robert PattersonI wanted to take off my clothes and rush into the pond, and swim like a fish, or wriggle like a pollywog.
Painted Windows | Elia W. PeattieHe wondered if those pollywog children of Old Mr. Toad would be much changed.
The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad | Thornton W. Burgess
British Dictionary definitions for polliwog
pollywog
/ (ˈpɒlɪˌwɒɡ) /
Origin of polliwog
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