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porwiggle

/ˈpɔː(ɹ)wɪɡəl/

porwiggle is the alternative form of pollywog.

Meaning of pollywog

Noun

pollywog (plural pollywogs)

  1. (Canada, UK, US, dialectal) A tadpole.
    • So Tommy sang the following verse: “The cold got worse, The frog got hoarse, Till croaking he scared a polliwog!”1897, L. Frank Baum, “The Story of Tommy Tucker”, in Mother Goose in Prose
  2. (informal) A sailor who has not yet crossed the equator.
  3. (archaic, derogatory) An untrustworthy person, especially a politician.

See all 5 meanings of pollywog

Forms of porwiggle

pluralporwiggles

Questions about porwiggle

What is porwiggle the alternative form of?
Porwiggle is the alternative form of pollywog.
How do you pronounce porwiggle?
Porwiggle is pronounced /ˈpɔː(ɹ)wɪɡəl/.

Words near porwiggle in the dictionary

  1. Porush
  2. poruwa
  3. poruwas
  4. Porvoo
  5. Porvorim
  6. porwiggle
  7. porwiggles
  8. porwigle
  9. porwigles
  10. pory
  11. porzelky

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Adapted from Wiktionary: porwiggle (page history and authors); pollywog (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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