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tadpolism en · NOUN

Etymology

From tadpole + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Synonym of tadpolehood.
    • With such a source of wealth in one's pocket one would begin to live; all previous existence would be tadpolism, now only would one stretch out legs and arms and begin to jump. 1887, Sabine Baring-Gould, John Herring:
    • When I first met Damon, his nursery days of tadpolism were long ago past. He was out in the world, his own master, and pretended to forget that he was ever a tadpole, with enormous head and belly and a long tail. 1867, John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton, Our Young Folks, volume 3, page 323:

Synonyms

tadpolehood