单词 | tadpole |
释义 | tadpolen.1 1. a. The larva of a frog, toad, or other batrachian, from the time it leaves the egg until it loses its gills and tail. Chiefly applied in the early stage when the animal appears to consist simply of a round head with a tail. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > member of > tadpole powheada1325 pollywog1440 tadpole1519 horse-nail1608 bullhead1611 thunder-pad1700 frog tadpole1799 frogling1840 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 569/7 Brucus, a taddepol. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 766/20 Hic lumbricus, a tadpolle. 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxxii. f. 277v This water is full of tadpollys. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 451 After a swelting Day, some sultry shower Doth in the Marshes heapes of Tadpals poure. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xi. 118 Poore Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the tode, the tod pole . View more context for this quotation 1681 E. Hickeringill Char. Sham Plotter in Wks. (1716) I. 212 A Sham-Plotter..is the Spawn of a Papist, as a Toad-Poll of a Toad. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 80 The egg, or little black globe, which produces a tadpole. 1886 J. Ruskin Præterita I. ix. 293 Without so much water anywhere as..a tadpole could wag his tail in. b. transferred and figurative. (In quot. 1594, a black infant.) ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [noun] wenchelc890 childeOE littleOE littlingOE hired-childc1275 smalla1300 brolla1325 innocentc1325 chickc1330 congeonc1330 impc1380 faunt1382 young onec1384 scionc1390 weea1400 birdc1405 chickenc1440 enfaunta1475 small boyc1475 whelp1483 burden1490 little one1509 brat?a1513 younkerkin1528 kitling1541 urchin1556 loneling1579 breed1586 budling1587 pledge?1587 ragazzo1591 simplicity1592 bantling1593 tadpole1594 two-year-old1594 bratcheta1600 lambkin1600 younker1601 dandling1611 buda1616 eyas-musketa1616 dovelinga1618 whelplinga1618 puppet1623 butter printa1625 chit1625 piggy1625 ninnyc1626 youngster1633 fairya1635 lap-child1655 chitterling1675 squeaker1676 cherub1680 kid1690 wean1692 kinchin1699 getlingc1700 totum17.. charity-child1723 small girl1734 poult1739 elfin1748 piggy-wiggy1766 piccaninny1774 suck-thumb18.. teeny1802 olive1803 sprout1813 stumpie1820 sexennarian1821 totty1822 toddle1825 toddles1828 poppet1830 brancher1833 toad1836 toddler1837 ankle-biter1840 yarkera1842 twopenny1844 weeny1844 tottykins1849 toddlekins1852 brattock1858 nipper1859 sprat1860 ninepins1862 angelet1868 tenas man1870 tad1877 tacker1885 chavvy1886 joey1887 toddleskin1890 thumb-sucker1891 littlie1893 peewee1894 tyke1894 che-ild1896 kiddo1896 mother's bairn1896 childling1903 kipper1905 pick1905 small1907 God forbid1909 preadolescent1909 subadolescent1914 toto1914 snookums1919 tweenie1919 problem child1920 squirt1924 trottie1924 tiddler1927 subteen1929 perisher1935 poopsie1937 pre-schooler1937 pre-teen1938 pre-teener1940 juvie1941 sprog1944 pikkie1945 subteenager1947 pre-teenager1948 pint-size1954 saucepan lid1960 rug rat1964 smallie1984 bosom-child- 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iv. ii. 84 Ile broach the tadpole on my Rapiers point, Nurse giue it me, my sword shall soone dispatch it. View more context for this quotation 1881 Macmillan's Mag. 44 475 Such pale tad~poles,..with listless ways, and few games. 2. Sometimes applied to the tailed larva of a tunicate, the swimming tail of which is afterwards dropped or absorbed. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > party politics > [noun] > party machine > party worker or hack party hack1848 worker1873 party worker1874 tadpole1880 precinct worker1881 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Molluscoidea > [noun] > division Tunicata > larva of tadpole1880 1880 E. R. Lankester Degeneration 42 The egg of Phallusia gives rise to a tadpole. 1909 W. Hatchett Jackson Let. to Editor The ascidian or tunicate tadpole. 3. A local name in the U.S. of a waterfowl, the Hooded Merganser, Lophodytes cucullatus, apparently from the size of its head, or from the patch of white on its crest. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > freshwater birds > order Anseriformes (geese, etc.) > subfamily Merginae (duck) > [noun] > genus Mergus (merganser) > mergus cucullatus (hooded merganser) tow-head1829 hooded merganser1840 tadpole1891 1891 in Cent. Dict. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations, as tadpole form, tadpole state, etc.; tadpole-like adj. ΚΠ 1682 J. Dryden Medall 19 Frogs and Toads, and all the Tadpole Train. 1682 S. Pordage Medal Revers'd 30 The Tadpole-Priests, Shall lift above the Lords, their Priestly Crests. 1768 G. White Let. 18 June in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 49 Frogs are as yet in their tadpole state. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. §980 The young animal [ascidian] has..a large tadpole-like tail. 1856 P. H. Gosse Man. Marine Zool. II. 27 At first it has a tadpole-like form. C2. tadpole fish n. (also tadpole-hake) a ganoid fish of the North Atlantic, Raniceps raninus. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > unspecified and miscellaneous types of haberdine1300 haberdine-fish1574 moki1777 parr1832 tadpole fish1832 haddock1847 1832 G. Johnston in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. 1. 7 Of the tadpole fish [Raniceps trifurcatus, Flem.], I had the pleasure of exhibiting to you a living specimen. Derivatives ˈtadpoledom n. ΚΠ 1863 C. Kingsley Let. 29 May in Life (1879) II. 157 Little beggars an inch long, fresh from water and tadpoledom. ˈtadpolehood n. ΚΠ 1891 C. L. Morgan Animal Sketches 222 Little Froggies which have just emerged from tadpole-hood. 1897 G. C. Bateman Vivarium 296 Many of the Batrachians, during a portion of their tadpolehood, are vegetable feeders. ˈtadpolism n. the state of being a tadpole; also figurative. ΚΠ 1883 S. Baring-Gould John Herring III. lix. 293 All previous existence would be tadpolism. ˈtadpoleˌward adv. [see -ward suffix] ΚΠ 1897 Voice (N.Y.) 8 Apr. 3/1 Degeneration is involution through self tadpoleward. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Tadpolen.2 In Tadpole and Taper: used allusively in the sense ‘professional politicians, the hacks of a political party’. Hence Tadpole and Taperism. ΚΠ 1844 B. Disraeli Coningsby I. ii. ii. 180 Mr. Tadpole and Mr. Taper were also there; they too had lost their seats since 1832; but being men of business, and accustomed from early life to look about them, they had already commenced the combinations which..were to bear them back to the assembly where they were so missed.] 1885 Manch. Examiner 3 June 5/4 The tadpoles and the tapers of the party demand a cry. 1904 A. Birrell in Contemp. Rev. Apr. 475 A book further removed from such Tadpole and Taperism is not in the library. 1905 W. S. Churchill in Daily Chron. 13 May 5/6 The Cabinet was packed with nonentities, Tadpoles and Tapers from the Whips' room. 1908 F. Harrison in Trans. Royal Hist. Soc. 3rd Ser. 3 45 The reasons why he [Chatham] would never take office again [etc.]..all this has greatly exercised the Tadpoles and Tapers of his age and of our own. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.114..n.21885 |
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