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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Variant of polliwog.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See polliwog.

Wiktionary

  1. n. zoology A polliwog.
  2. n. A sailor who has not yet crossed the equator.
  3. n. New Zealand, slang, ethnic slur, offensive A person of Polynesian (usually Samoan) descent (Poly + wog).

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) A polliwig.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a larval frog or toad

Examples

  • “August 19th, 2009 4: 30 pm ET may God continue to bring you both even closer,,, ,love you both .. pollywog

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  • “It's pollywog in a bog, swims under soggy logs, one day he'll be a real frog, pollywog in a bog.”

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  • “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.”

    Cheryl Saban: Freshly Mown Grass -- The Legal Kind

  • “One day, we both aimed for the same frog and pitched over into the pollywog egg soup that was the pond.”

    Man Against Beast V: Scorpion Rising

  • “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.”

    Mayor Sam's Hotsheet for Wednesday

  • “I gave him a drink of pollywog water, and as we talked, he kept patting my hand and calling me “Teacher Lady.””

    Simon & Schuster: Half Broke Horses

  • “Well, " said Amanda, turning the loaded pages, -a pollywog is more than a monowog.”

    Another Roadside Attraction

  • “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).”

    The Mother and Her Child

  • “Hee-poof -- I've swallowed a pollywog, Mr. Beebe, water's wonderful, water's simply ripping.”

    A Room with a View

  • “His eyes are also adapted to looking upward, discerning dimly dangers from above, and whatever else catches the attention of a bottom-loving pollywog.”

    Edge of the Jungle

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  • reesetee Apparently in naval terminology this refers to a person who has never crossed the equator. :-) Jun 20, 2007

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