Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Variant of polliwog.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See polliwog.
Wiktionary
- n. zoology A polliwog.
- n. A sailor who has not yet crossed the equator.
- n. New Zealand, slang, ethnic slur, offensive A person of Polynesian (usually Samoan) descent (Poly + wog).
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) A polliwig.
WordNet 3.0
- 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”
“It's pollywog in a bog, swims under soggy logs, one day he'll be a real frog, pollywog in a bog.”
“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.”
“One day, we both aimed for the same frog and pitched over into the pollywog egg soup that was the pond.”
“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.”
“I gave him a drink of pollywog water, and as we talked, he kept patting my hand and calling me “Teacher Lady.””
“Well, " said Amanda, turning the loaded pages, -a pollywog is more than a monowog.”
“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).”
“Hee-poof -- I've swallowed a pollywog, Mr. Beebe, water's wonderful, water's simply ripping.”
“His eyes are also adapted to looking upward, discerning dimly dangers from above, and whatever else catches the attention of a bottom-loving pollywog.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pollywog’.
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She did what?
For a more inclusive list, see sionnach's tom, dick and harry.
Also see the list Bad Sentences by abigail.katydid, Hollywood, june bug, June bug, Maryland, Marywood, Marymount, joy ride, joystick, barbet, barbwire, pennywhistle and 62 more...
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ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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What's That Pokémon Name?
Words used to create the names of Pokémon, which are usually portmanteaux.
bulb, dinosaur, ivy, venus, char, salamander, squirt, turtle, blast, tortoise, water, caterpillar and 525 more...
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Carlos' Words
monstropolous, absquatulate
triffid, calque, pinguid, refulgent, monstropolous, Seanchaí, clinquant, Chryselephantine ..., peavey, milium, swage, Burtillon, Burtil... and 213 more...
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summer words 2009
how many words can I make mine this summer?
largess, hoyden, catholic, fornicatress, quean, slattern, bildungsroman, sybaritic, descresent, nodus, frittle, callipygian and 529 more...
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daleshipley's Words
brinksmanship, contravene, teleological, sartorial, conventicle, habiliment, tendentious, acrimonious, ontology, epistemology, impugn, dysphasia and 219 more...
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Are we there yet?
These have some growing up to do.
colt, foal, kitten, cub, pup, heifer, larva, imago, veliger, trochophore, grub, maggot and 178 more...
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mkuo's Words
sigh, chum, clandestine, behemoth, paramour, leviathan, dollop, wastrel, pedantic, hankering, warble, lope and 317 more...
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Critters
cockle, cicada, appaloosa, brachiopod, bivalve, aye-aye, cygnet, alewife, chamois, ermine, drake, dugong and 381 more...
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animalia
Creatures with interesting names/lives.
salamander, badger, varmint, wombat, skink, tortoise, pika, gnu, pangolin, porpoise, serval, walrus and 53 more...
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suunflowerss's Words
bakery, crisp, pollywog, crescent, chrysanthemum, aluminum, turquoise, bazooka, crotch rocket, paisley, vermouth, dildo and 107 more...
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All dressed up and no place to go
another toybox where I can put words I want to play with later.
toybox, excrescence, greengrocer, sequin, gehenna, ingenuous, disingenuous, cavil, ingenius, exsanguination, pictograph, postulate and 31 more...
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wordch1ckie's list
Borborgamy
pollywog, blain, lugubrious, lackadaisical, furbelow, masticate, nutate, rascal, optimize, objectify, maximize, bollard and 6 more...
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Interesting ones
As a second language, thank you.
ergophobia, quoz, pope, wobble, logos, vertebrate, masterpiece, mu, billabong, mojo, merkin, milieu and 76 more...
Tweets
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reesetee Apparently in naval terminology this refers to a person who has never crossed the equator. :-) Jun 20, 2007