froglingn.

a1590 F. Walsingham Anatomizing of Honesty, Ambition & Fortitude in J. Howell Cottoni Posthuma (1651) 338 The wooden Lord is like the Logg that Iupiter gave the Froggs to be their King;..when they once perceived it unactive, and senselessly lying still, the wiser sort of Froggs began to despise it, and (in fine) every young Frogling presumed to leap up and down upon it.

1614 J. Day Dyall 146 Some of her litle Frog-lings would put her in mind of that which followeth.

a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) I. iii. iv. 92 He does not fail..the wormlings of the earth, nor the froglings of the water.

1793 G. Morris Let. 7 Mar. in T. Jefferson Papers (1992) XXV. 334 It is the old Story of King Log and how long it may be before Jupiter sends them a Crane to destroy the Frogs and Froglings is a Matter of Uncertainty.

1831 Foreign Q. Rev. 8 365 A Frog with Frogling by his side Came hopping through the plain.

1840 T. Hood Up Rhine 119 That minute frogling—a tadpole.

1909 Westm. Gaz. 6 Aug. 4/2 A little later the tadpole population swarmed in every pond, and now the perfect frogling is going a-wooing, or on other business of his life.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 909 The eggs of the frog develop in three months or so into froglings that must get out of the water or drown.

2004 Evening Post (Nottingham) (Nexis) 2 Oct. 16 My pond was full of tadpoles Now there are very few But hopping in my garden Are froglings of yellow-green hue.