10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PORWIGGLE»
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I. Tadpole and porwiggle are synonymous terms, and are applied indifferently.
Polliwog, in America, is the corruption of porwiggle, which in other parts is
corrupted into polliwig. Now, Forby thinks (See Webster Unabridged) — and who
doubts ...
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The Yale Literary Magazine
I. Tadpole and porwiggle are synonymous terms, and are applied indifferently.
Polliwog, in America, is the corruption of porwiggle, which in other parts is
corrupted into polliwig. Now, Forby thinks (See Webster Unabridged) — and who
doubts ...
3
Colburn's New Monthly Magazine and Humorist
The metaphysician groaned ; his whole frame quivered with passion, and it was
with considerable difficulty that he asked -—“If-if this infernal porwiggle is to marry
your daughter—what did you come 10 ask of me ?" “ To give her away, sir," said ...
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Addenda to the Aedes Hartwellianae
Porwiggle. A tadpole. Prod or Prodd. A goad for oxen, a small arrow. Proud. Said
of grain which is growing too high. Puggeus. The husks of barley. Quainton. A
town in an oak forest. Quaker-grass. The totter or quaking grass, a briza.
Qucumer.
William Henry Smyth,
1864
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Transactions of the Philological Society
... globular head or body and a mobile tail, is called tadpole, bullhead, polhead,
Sc. powhead, polliwig, pollwiggle, porwiggle, porriwiggle. There can BY
HENSLEIGH wsncwoon, ESQ. 293.
Philological Society (London),
1868
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Catalogue of the Egyptian antiquities in the Museum of ...
1. Plate 54 of Sir Gardner Wilkinson's plates to his second series of the Manners
and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians. The two palm-branches terminate in the
figure of a tadpole standing on a ring. The tadpole or porwiggle ...
Joseph Bonomi, John Lee,
1858
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The Journal of the British Archaeological Association
Kimmel, a tub for household purposes. Little-worth, an enclosed homestead, a
small farm. Mestling, mixed corn of wheat and rye sown together. Porwiggle, a
tadpole. Pw/gens, the husks of barley. Rowens, the second mowing of grass for
hay.
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A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel ...
Tactician, n. Manœuvrer, wirepuller, adroit manager. Tactics, n. 1. Strategy,
military science. 2. Management, manœuvring, policy. Tactile, a. Tangible,
palpable. Tadpole, n. Polliwog, porwiggle, purwiggy, polliwig. Taffrail, n. Stern rail
. Tag, n. 1.
The stubble of beans, peas, or vetches PORT-WAY. Port-wag, a guarded
passage over a ford. Porwiggle. A tadpole. Prod or Prodd. A goad for oxen, a
small arrow. Proud. Said of grain which is growing too high. Puggens. The husks
of barley.
William Henry Smyth,
2014
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Sand and shells, nautical sketches
Already the Bloater was right off the harbour's mouth ; the Dragon had cast off,
and had run in again, in time for the ball at Mr. Porwiggle's. But the Bloater hove
too, and hovered off the harbour's mouth — chop, chopping, in a light swell, with
a ...
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National Spelling Bee (Live blog)
Is it porwiggle or porwigle? It's porwigle. Frank Cahill's extra G will be likely regretted for a long time. We're moving pretty fast now. «Washington Post, May 12»