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Definition of "pollywog" [pol•ly•wog]

  • Variant of polliwog. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "pollywog" in a sentence
  • "August 19th, 2009 4: 30 pm ET may God continue to bring you both even closer,,, ,love you both .. pollywog"
  • "It's pollywog in a bog, swims under soggy logs, one day he'll be a real frog, pollywog in a bog."
  • "At the bottom of the gorge, a small creek trickled down the middle of it, with pollywog-filled water that was mostly runoff from a man-sized pipe that burrowed under the highway at the top of the gorge -- another adventure waiting to happen."
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