[dim. of FROG1: see -LING.] A little frog; also, a tadpole.
1742. Jarvis, Quix., I. III. iv. (1749), 107. He does not fail ... the wormlings of the earth, nor the froglings of the water.
1831. Carlyle, in For. Q. Rev., VIII. 365. A Frog with Frogling by his side Came hopping through the plain.
1840. Hood, Up the Rhine, 129. Amongst the fossils is a complete series of frogs, from the full-grown froggy that might a wooing go, down to that minute frogling—a tadpole.
