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-- Sir John Poley's frog may have been a device alluding to his name; I imagine that Poley is an appelative of frogs.
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New York was amused at the singularly appropriate appelative, and it has stuck to the prison ever since.
The Third Degree A Narrative of Metropolitan Life Charles Klein 1891
mollusque commented on the word appelative
Variant of appellative.
July 13, 2008