Pollywog

Word POLLYWOG
Character 8
Hyphenation pol ly wog
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Pollywog"

What do we mean by pollywog?

See polliwog. noun

A polliwig. noun

A polliwog. noun

A sailor who has not yet crossed the equator. noun

A person of Polynesian (usually Samoan) descent (Poly + wog). noun

A larval frog or toad noun

A polliwog.

A sailor who has not yet crossed the equator.

A person of Polynesian (usually Samoan) descent (Poly + wog).

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The word "pollywog" in example sentences

August 19th, 2009 4: 30 pm ET may God continue to bring you both even closer,,, ,love you both .. pollywog ❋ Unknown (2009)

One day, we both aimed for the same frog and pitched over into the pollywog egg soup that was the pond. ❋ Slimbolala (2006)

It's pollywog in a bog, swims under soggy logs, one day he'll be a real frog, pollywog in a bog. ❋ Unknown (2008)

At the bottom of the gorge, a small creek trickled down the middle of it, with pollywog-filled water that was mostly runoff from a man-sized pipe that burrowed under the highway at the top of the gorge -- another adventure waiting to happen. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It is said that those who fail to appear before Neptunus Rex are forever damned as pirates, and no shellback shall ever tread upon the deck of a pollywog without incurring the wrath of said monarch. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I gave him a drink of pollywog water, and as we talked, he kept patting my hand and calling me “Teacher Lady.” ❋ Jeannette Walls (1994)

"Well, " said Amanda, turning the loaded pages, -a pollywog is more than a monowog. ❋ Robbins, Tom (1971)

In this search for the ovum, the sperm propels itself forward by means of its tail -- for the male sperm in general appearance very much resembles the little pollywog of the rain barrel (Fig. 1). ❋ William S. Sadler (N/A)

"Hee-poof -- I've swallowed a pollywog, Mr. Beebe, water's wonderful, water's simply ripping." ❋ Unknown (1924)

His eyes are also adapted to looking upward, discerning dimly dangers from above, and whatever else catches the attention of a bottom-loving pollywog. ❋ William Beebe (1919)

Yet the Redfins, as typified by Guinevere, have done both, and given time enough, they may emulate or surpass the achievements of larval axolotls, or the astounding egg-producing maggots of certain gnats, thus realizing all the possibilities of froghood while yet cribbed within the lowly casing of a pollywog. ❋ William Beebe (1919)

Twice, while I watched them, I saw definite pursuit of an alien pollywog, -- the larva of the ❋ William Beebe (1919)

My Redfins were assuredly no common tadpoles, and an intolerant pollywog offers worthy research for the naturalist. ❋ William Beebe (1919)

I wanted to take off my clothes and rush into the pond, and swim like a fish, or wriggle like a pollywog. ❋ Unknown (1918)

He caught a pollywog for bait, with which he waded to a deep, cool place under a shady bank. ❋ William Joseph Long (1909)

There he whacked his pollywog into small bits and tossed them into the water, where the chum speedily brought a shoal of little fish to feed. ❋ William Joseph Long (1909)

"She seems as elusive as the fur-bearing pollywog," announced the professor. ❋ John Henry Goldfrap (1898)

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