Pollywogs

Word POLLYWOGS
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Definitions and meanings of "Pollywogs"

What do we mean by pollywogs?

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 "pollywogs" in example sentences

"The effect of the copper-sulphate treatment on the different animal life was as follows: numerous 'pollywogs' killed, but no frogs; numerous small (less than two inches long) black bass and two large ones (eight inches long) killed; about ten large 'bullheads' were killed, but no small ones; numerous small (less than two inches long) 'sunfish' were killed, but no large ones. ❋ Kenelm Winslow (N/A)

And walking through a marshy area in the morning on my way to school, I'd lie down at the edge of the vernal pond and look at fairy shrimp, large fresh water crustaceans, swimming on their backs; water beetles; pollywogs swimming around and others wriggling out of the jelly mass of the egg cluster. ❋ Anis Shivani (2011)

"There was a pond nearby, and I used to bring home a pickle jar filled with pollywogs," she says. ❋ Nancy Ruhling (2011)

Charles and Eve were so thirsty and exhausted that schools of transparent pollywogs were swimming around their heads. ❋ Stephen O’Connor (2010)

They would cancer outward, pollywogs of islands of questions. ❋ Amy Gerstler (2010)

Veteran sailors called shellbacks shave the heads of the uninitiated pollywogs. ❋ James Scott (2009)

The day before the ceremony, Armstrong met in secret with a dozen of his fellow pollywogs. ❋ James Scott (2009)

The pollywogs climb through an approximately thirty-foot chute made from a tarp and filled with rotting trash and food waste as sailors heckle and paddle them. ❋ James Scott (2009)

The pollywogs broke into the locked compartment that night and seized the trash. ❋ James Scott (2009)

“Those are pollywogs,” Carol said, pointing the toe of her shoe at my puke. ❋ Matthew Sanborn Smith (2008)

We learned how to catch crayfish, pollywogs, frogs and lightning bugs, and an occasional snake or two. ❋ Jack Canfield (2008)

Both are great websites, so I encourage you to explore them and see what activities you can take you pollywogs. ❋ DNLee (2008)

I came here via Peppers and pollywogs, I'm sure I'll be back! ❋ Cupcake Queen (2007)

He made his living advising tadpoles and pollywogs and was so successful that he never had to catch his own food. ❋ GayandRight (2007)

We, if you will, are mere pollywogs having never made obeisance to Neptunus Rex. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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