polliwog

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All night the Maryland echoed with the scufflings of "shellbacks" capturing and securing "pollywogs" for the next day's rites.

From Time Magazine Archive

At the Equator, the usual elaborate horseplay for "pollywogs" who had never crossed it before was conducted by the "shellbacks."

From Time Magazine Archive

One man has been trying unsuccessfully to get $25 for six pairs of breeding bullfrogs and several hundred pollywogs.

From Time Magazine Archive

To all animals, even pollywogs, the family has a distinctive aroma, as distinctive as a clan plaid.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

And in one sunny corner there were pollywogs and lively crawfish.

From The Cinder Pond by Rankin, Carroll Watson