polliwog

Etymology

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

noun

  1. (US, dialectal) A tadpole.
    So Tommy sang the following verse: “The cold got worse, The frog got hoarse, Till croaking he scared a polliwog!” 1897, L. Frank Baum, “The Story of Tommy Tucker”, in Mother Goose in Prose

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