单词 | earworm |
释义 | earwormn.1 1. An earwig. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Dermaptera > member of (earwig) earwigeOE beetle-wig1595 earworm1598 twitch-ballock1634 forken-robin1691 twitch-bell1722 twinge1790 twitch1790 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xlv. 84/2 They [sc. in India] can hardly kepe any paper..from wormes, which are like eare wormes. 1681 E. Tyson tr. J. Swammerdam Ephemeri Vita viii. 31 The Ear-worm, or Forfica,..hide[s] very large Wings under a small Shell or Case, as if they had none at all. a1813 A. Murray Hist. European Lang. (1823) I. 457 In the Teutonic dialects any tortuous reptile was called wigga, as in ear-wigga, an ear-worm. 1870 H. Raphael tr. A. Vogel Pract. Treat. Dis. Children (ed. 3) vi. 435 The ear-worm (forficula auricula), so much dreaded by people, occasions no special danger. 1908 J. Crichton-Browne et al. Standard Family Physician II. 291 Flies, roaches, bedbugs, and fleas are rarely found in the ear; the so-called ‘ear-worm’ never. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > advice > [noun] > adviser or counsellor > confidential privya1325 privy counsellora1393 discreet1474 secreta1513 earworma1670 a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 152 If they advise the Destruction of the King, the State, or the Laws of the Realm, there is nothing in the Oath to protect such an Ear-worm, but he may be appeached. 3. A catchy tune, piece of music, or (occasionally) phrase which persistently stays in a person's mind, esp. to the point of irritation. ΚΠ 1982 H. Ross in H. Byrnes Contemp. Perceptions of Lang. 11 A poet does something to the words which you and i [sic] use in our everyday interactions and puts them there and they become what they call in german an 'ohrwurm' an ear worm you can't get it out of your head. 1991 J. Barrett tr. G. Weil Bride Price 53 In the vernacular, it's called an ‘earworm’—words, bits of music that won't leave you alone. 2011 Atlantic Monthly Apr. 104/2 The best advice I've heard for making earworms go away is to just stop being irritated by them, and come to peace with the fact that you're humming Britney Spears. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). earwormn.2 Originally U.S. In full corn earworm. The larva of either of two noctuid moths of the genus Helicoverpa, H. zea of the New World and H. armigera of the Old World, which are major pests of a wide variety of agricultural crops; (also) the moth itself. Also called cotton bollworm. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Noctuidae > member of (noctuid) antler1775 owlet moth1846 noctuid1873 earworm1882 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Noctuidae > caterpillar of heliothis armigera (mealie-cob) earworm1882 mealie-cob worm1911 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > defined by feeding or parasitism > parasite(s) > that infests cotton pod boll-worm1848 earworm1882 1882 J. A. Lintner in 1st. Ann. Rep. Injurious & Other Insects State N.Y. 121 The caterpillar is known as the ‘corn-worm’ throughout the South when it occurs on corn... Other names sometimes applied to it, are the ‘ear-worm’, the ‘tassel-worm’, and the ‘terminal bud worm’. 1923 H. C. Thompson Veg. Crops xxvii. 449 The corn earworm..is the same as the bollworm of cotton and the fruitworm of tomato. 1974 New Zealand Jrnl. Agric. Res. 2 201/1 Methomyl..is used in particular against lepidopterous larvae such as the tomato fruitworm or corn earworm (Helicoverpa armigera). 2013 Columbian (Nexis) 20 Oct. a1 The other option is to grow a genetically engineered variety of corn bred to resist earworm. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11598n.21882 |
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