pollywog

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tadpole. Canada,UK,US,dialectal
    — So Tommy sang the following verse: “The cold got worse, The frog got hoarse, Till croaking he scared a polliwog!”
  2. A person of Polynesian (usually Samoan) descent. New-Zealand,ethnic,offensive,slang,slur
  3. An untrustworthy person, especially a politician. archaic,derogatory
  4. A sailor who has not yet crossed the equator. informal
动词 v.
  1. To collect mussels, clams, etc. in shallow water using one's hands. US,intransitive
    — She was a ninety-year-old Irish lady, and knew more about the river than anyone I’d met. She knew every tow ever to pass by her house, and told me stories of pollywogging when she was a girl. When she wasn’t hunting clams, she was fishing cats, and knew every beach, island and milemarker on the river.
  2. To move in the manner of a tadpole; to zigzag, undulate. intransitive,rare
    — Crossing the goal line, [Billy "White Shoes"] Johnson was automatically transformed in to a kind of dancing cartoon: legs pollywogging back and forth like plastic limbs, knees—at least before some injuries—seemingly flexing in all planes, football held aloft in one hand.

词形变化

pollywogs plural polliwog alternative porwiggle alternative porwigle alternative poliwag alternative,obsolete polliwag alternative,obsolete polliwig alternative,obsolete polliwiggle alternative,obsolete pollywig alternative,obsolete polwig alternative,obsolete purwiggy alternative,obsolete pollywogs present,singular,third-person pollywogging participle,present pollywogged participle,past pollywogged past polliwog alternative porwiggle alternative porwigle alternative poliwag alternative,obsolete polliwag alternative,obsolete polliwig alternative,obsolete polliwiggle alternative,obsolete pollywig alternative,obsolete polwig alternative,obsolete purwiggy alternative,obsolete pollywogs plural

词源

词源 1
From earlier polwigge, from Middle English polwygle, equal to poll (“head”) + wiggle.
词源 2
Blend of Polynesian + wog.
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