tadpolism

English

Etymology

tadpole +‎ -ism

Noun

tadpolism (uncountable)

1. Synonym of tadpolehood
   • 1867, John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton, Our Young Folks, volume 3, page 323:

     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.

   • 1887, Sabine Baring-Gould, John Herring:

     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.