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#1·Apr 27, 2026
(US, dialectal) A tadpole.
So Tommy sang the following verse: “The cold got worse, The frog got hoarse, Till croaking he scared a polliwog!”
Origin: From earlier polwigge, from , equal to. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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