| 释义 | polliwog, pollywog dial. and U.S.|ˈpɒlɪwɒg|
Forms: α. 5 polwygle, 7 porwig(g)le, 9 porriwiggle, purwiggy, pollywiggle, pollywoggle. β. 6 polwigge, 7 polewigge, po(o)lwig, 9 polliwig, polly-wig, polliwog, pollywog.
[ME. polwygle, f. poll n.1 + wiggle v. The forms polwig, etc., are either shortened from polwygle, or formed with the dial. wig vb. to wag.]
a. A tadpole.
αc1440Promp. Parv. 408/1 Polwygle, wyrme. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 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. 1823E. Moor Suffolk Words & Phrases 288 Pollywiggle, the tad-pole—in Norfolk called potladle. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Purwiggy, a tadpole. 1855Robinson Whitby Gloss., Porriwiggles, tadpoles and other tortuous animalcula in water. 1881S. Evans Evans's Leicestershire Words (new ed.) 216 Pollywig, or pollywiggle,..a tadpole. ‘Poddywig’ is, I think, the commoner form. 1933H. G. Wells Bulpington of Blup ii. 45 These things you call pollywiggles and pollywoggles. 1965East Anglian May 242/1 Tadpoles were..pollywiggles.
β1592Nashe 4 Lett. Confut. (1593) 63 Thou hast a prety polwigge sparrows taile peake. 1601Holland Pliny I. 265 Some little mites of blackish flesh, which they call Tadpoles or Polwigs. a1825Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Polliwigs. 1835–40Haliburton Clockm. (1862) 321 Little ponds..nothing but pollywogs, tadpoles, and minims in them. 1862Lowell Biglow P. Ser. ii. 80 ‘Lord knows’, protest the polliwogs, ‘We're anxious to be grown-up frogs’. 1892Working Men's Coll. Jrnl. Oct. 124 In this pond dwells the pollywog, loggerhead, or tadpole.
b. U.S. As a political nickname.
1854L. Oliphant Episodes (1887) 47 Filibusters, polly⁓wogs, and a host of other nicknames. 1864Sala in Daily Tel. 27 Sept., ‘The slimy machinations of the pollywog politicians have usurped the government of our city’, said Poer. |
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