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- noun Plural form of
polliwig .
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Examples
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Under the microscope these little bodies are seen to describe movements not unlike those of polliwigs.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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There are no fish in Mono Lake -- no frogs, no snakes, no polliwigs
Roughing It, Part 4. Mark Twain 1872
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There are no fish in Mono Lake -- no frogs, no snakes, no polliwigs
Roughing It Mark Twain 1872
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This joke has received high commendation from some of the ablest minds of the age.] There are no fish in Mono Lake -- no frogs, no snakes, no polliwigs -- nothing, in fact, that goes to make life desirable.
Roughing It 1871
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