tadpolism
tadpolism noun: synonym of tadpolehood.
Noun
tadpolism (uncountable)
- Synonym of tadpolehood.
- When I first met Damon, his nursery days of tadpolism were long ago past. He was out in the world, his own master, and pretended to forget that he was ever a tadpole, with enormous head and belly and a long tail.1867, John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton, Our Young Folks, volume 3, page 323
- With such a source of wealth in one's pocket one would begin to live; all previous existence would be tadpolism, now only would one stretch out legs and arms and begin to jump.1887, Sabine Baring-Gould, John Herring
- Synonyms:
- tadpolehood
Synonyms of tadpolism
Origin of tadpolism
From tadpole + -ism.
Questions about tadpolism
- What does tadpolism mean?
- Tadpolism means synonym of tadpolehood.
- What part of speech is tadpolism?
- Tadpolism is a noun.
Words near tadpolism in the dictionary
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