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pollywogn. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: poll n.1, wiggle v., wig v.1 Etymology: Originally < poll n.1 + wiggle v.The β. forms represent either a shortening of this or a parallel formation < poll n.1 + wig v.1 The γ. forms show further suffixation (see -y suffix6). The development of an epenthetic vowel between the two elements is first attested in the late 18th cent. (in the form pollywig ). Forms in -wog , -woggle , etc., which first appear in the early 19th cent., apparently show the rounding influence of w on the following vowel (however, compare also woggle v.). In some forms also apparently with folk etymological alteration after periwig n. (compare quot. a1825 at sense 1γ. ). Chiefly English regional and U.S.the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > member of > tadpole α. (Harl. 221) 408 (MED) Polwygle, wyrme. 1646 Sir T. Browne 329 The spawne is white, contracting by degrees a blacknesse, answerable..unto the porwigle or Tadpole, that is, that animall which first proceedeth from it. View more context for this quotation 1756 S. Johnson Porwigle, a tadpole or young frog not yet fully shaped. 1823 E. Moor 288 Pollywiggle, the tad-pole—in Norfolk called potladle. 1881 S. Evans (new ed.) 216 Pollywig, or pollywiggle,..a tadpole. ‘Poddywig’ is, I think, the commoner form. 1933 H. G. Wells ii. 45 These things you call pollywiggles and pollywoggles. 1995 A. Higgins 95 The tadpoles devour each another indiscriminately... Rita Phelan calls them pollywoggles. the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > [noun] > suborder Gobioidei > family Gobiidae > member of genus Gobius 1836 W. Yarrell I. 258 The Spotted Goby..is also most plentiful in the Thames, where it is known by the names of Polewig, or Pollybait. 1880–4 F. Day I. 166 Gobius minutus... Freckled or spotted goby. Polewig or pollybait, Thames local name. 1854 L. Oliphant 26 May (1887) 47 Filibusters, pollywogs, and a host of other nicknames. 1864 G. A. Sala in 27 Sept. ‘The slimy machinations of the pollywog politicians have usurped the government of our city’, said Poer. 1936 C. Porter 4 He's appalling, he's appealing, He's a pollywog, he's a paragon. 1925 2 Aug. 1/4 Brendel gives details of the initiation thru which ‘pollywogs’ or tenderfeet were put upon arrival at the equator before they could be classified as ‘old salts’. 1959 11 Feb. 4/3 Each Pollywog was..splashed with cold water..then thrown headlong into the pool... We had crossed the equator. 2004 (Nexis) 21 Feb. 48 The ship is about to cross the Equator... We take part in an old naval ritual to convert ‘pollywogs’ (first timers) to ‘shellbacks’ (old hands). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.1440 |
