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ˈpolehead, powhead Now only Sc. and north. dial.
Forms: 3 polheuede, 6 poled, polet, 6–7 pole-head; Sc. 8– pow-head (9 powet).
[ME. polheuede, the second element being head; the first is uncertain, though perh. the same as in tadpole; the Sc. form pow- suggests that it is poll n.1, and that the etymological spelling would be poll-head.]
A tadpole. Also fig.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 2977 Polheuedes, and froskes, and podes swile, Bond harde egipte folc in sile. 1530Palsgr. 256/2 Poled a yonge tode... Polet the blacke thynge that a tode cometh of, cauesot. 1607Marston What you will ii. i. C j, Why thou Pole-head, thou Ianus, thou poultron,..thou Eare-wig that wrigglest into mens braines. 1611Cotgr., Cavesot, a Pole-head, or Bull-head; the little black vermine whereof toads, and frogs do come. 1789Davidson Seasons 12 Powheads spartle in the oosy slosh. 1822Galt Sir A. Wylie xliii, I would as soon meet wi' a pow-head in my porridge. 1876Smiles Sc. Natur. i. 8 No end of horse-leeches, powets.., frogs, and other creatures that abound in..muddy water. |