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polliwog

noun

Etymology

From earlier polwigge, from Middle English polwygle, equal to poll (“head”) + wiggle.

  1. inherited from polwygle

Definitions

  1. A tadpole.

    • So Tommy sang the following verse: “The cold got worse, The frog got hoarse, Till croaking he scared a polliwog!”

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for polliwog. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA