pollywog

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A tadpole.

   “So Tommy sang the following verse: “The cold got worse, The frog got hoarse, Till croaking he scared a polliwog!””

2. isim An untrustworthy person, especially a politician.
3. isim A sailor who has not yet crossed the equator.
4. fiil To collect mussels, clams, etc. in shallow water using one's hands.

   “I grew up on the Mississippi River and as a youth I fished, camped, and pollywogged for clams on the river, but I never found a pearl.”

5. fiil To move in the manner of a tadpole; to zigzag, undulate.

   “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.”

6. isim A person of Polynesian (usually Samoan) descent.