polliwog
noun
a tadpole.
pollywog
-
a variation of
polliwog.
Example Sentences
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As a pollywog you went through pure hell during initiation.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2012
Chief pollywog was Secretary Stephen Early, the Press's sole contact with the President.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next day, before breakfast coffee had well settled in pollywog bellies, a full-whiskered Neptunus Rex arrived on the fantail.
From Time Magazine Archive
Pollywog Truman cheerfully donned a baker's cap, saw to it that others in his entourage conformed to the prescribed pollywog costume of trousers, loud shirts and ties worn backward.*
From Time Magazine Archive
And just imagine how surprised Peter was to discover one day that that very pollywog which he had seen lose his tail had grown a new one.
From The Adventures of Old Mr. Toad by Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo) Burgess
