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单词 hagworm
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hagwormn.

Brit. /ˈhaɡwəːm/, U.S. /ˈhæɡwərm/, Scottish English /ˈhaɡwʌrm/
Forms: late Middle English 1600s hagworme, 1700s haggworm, 1700s– hagworm; English regional (chiefly northern) 1800s agworm, 1800s agworrum, 1800s haggom (Yorkshire), 1800s hagworrum, 1800s hagwurm.
Origin: A borrowing from early Scandinavian.
Etymology: < early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic hǫggormr , Old Swedish hugormber (Swedish huggorm ), Old Danish, Danish hugorm , all in sense ‘adder’; < the Scandinavian base of Old Icelandic hǫggva (see hag v.1) + the Scandinavian base of Old Icelandic ormr (see worm n.)), with remodelling of the second element after worm n.In later use the first element was sometimes apprehended as hag n.2 (in senses ‘copse’ or ‘bog’) or as a form of haw n.1 (‘hedge, enclosure’); compare quots. 1770, 1828.
English regional (chiefly northern) and Scottish in later use.
A snake; esp. an adder or viper, (less commonly) a grass snake; (also) a slow-worm.
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the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > [noun] > unspecified and miscellaneous types of
worm-kinc893
slow-wormOE
hagworm?c1475
salpege1569
scytale1572
house snake1608
porphyre1608
ellops1667
sea-serpent1672
tree-serpent1731
boyuna1763
whip-snake1774
garter-snake1775
switch-snake1791
argus-snake1802
rat snake1818
skaapsteker1818
sea-snake1827
short-tail1879
roof-snake1884
brown snake1896
herald-snake1910
night snake1918
parrot snake1931
the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Lacertilia (lizards) > [noun] > family Anguidae > anguis fragilis (slow-worm or blindworm)
slow-wormOE
blind-wormc1450
hagworm?c1475
death adder1608
addera1616
deaf adder1758
the world > animals > reptiles > order Squamata (lizards and snakes) > suborder Ophidia (snakes) > types of snake > [noun] > family Viperidae (vipers) > genus Vipera > vipera berus (common viper)
adderOE
boske addre1382
blind-wormc1450
hagworm?c1475
colubrec1480
viper1526
long-worm1578
viper-worm1605
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 59 A hagworme, jaculus.
?1632 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature ix. 69 That great hag-worme of a Corroding Conscience.
1743 London Mag. Jan. 44/2 Hence, hence, ye objects foul, The beetle, bat, and owl, The hagworm, newt, and toad.
1770 W. Hutton Beetham Repository (1906) 104 Arnside abounds with Snakes, called ‘Hag Worms’ from being in Haggs, or Woods.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Hag-worm, a snake, or blind worm, haunting the hag or hedge.
1844 P. J. Selby in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 2 No. 12. 87 A large specimen of the Slow or Hag-worm, Anguis fragilis.
1858 T. P. Thompson Audi Alteram Partem (1859) II. lxvii. 6 A snake (a poor harmless creature, by the way..always excepting the hag-worm).
1928 A. E. Pease Dict. Dial. N. Riding Yorks. 56/2 Hagworm is the universal name for the Adder in Cleveland and never applied to the Grass-snake. I once saw on Spaunton Moor a Hagworm swallow seven or eight young when I approached it.
1997 W. Rollinson Dict. Cumbrian Dial. 74/1 Hag worm, common snake or adder. The term is common throughout much of Cumbria.
2020 Darlington & Stockton Times (Electronic ed.) 29 May Locally, the adder is sometimes called the hagworm, but it is also more widely known as the European viper, a name which to my mind sounds far more threatening.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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