pollywogging

Verb

pollywog (third-person singular simple present pollywogs, present participle pollywogging, simple past and past participle pollywogged)

1. (US, intransitive) To collect mussels, clams, etc. in shallow water using one's hands.
   • 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...2001, Matthew Mohlke, “Quad Cities” (chapter 7), in Floating Down the Country, Red Wing, Minn.: Lone Oak Press, Ltd., →ISBN, page 91
2. (intransitive, rare) 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.1984, Phil Patton, “Off the Set” (chapter 12), in Razzle-Dazzle: The Curious Marriage Of Television And Professional Football, New York, N.Y.: The Dial Press, →ISBN, page 142

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