hog-lousen.
/ˈhɒɡlaʊs/, U.S. /ˈhɔɡˌlaʊs/, /ˈhɑɡˌlaʊs/ 1.
a. A woodlouse. Cf. sow-bug n. 1. Now historical.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Arthostraca > order Isopoda > family Oniscidae or genus Oniscus
lockchestera1400
sow14..
lugdora1425
louk?a1450
lockchestc1450
cheslip1530
palmer1538
chestworm1544
Robin Goodfellow's louse1552
monk's peason1558
cheslock1574
porcelet1578
swine louse1579
hog-louse1580
multiped1601
kitchen-bob1610
woodlouse1611
loop1612
millipede1612
timber-sow1626
cheeselog1657
sow-louse1658
thurse-louse1658
onisc1661
monkey pea1682
slater1684
slatter1739
sow-bug1750
Oniscus1806
pig louse1819
hob-thrush1828
land-slater1863
pig's louse1888
wall-louse1899
oniscoid1909
chucky-pig1946
1580 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Short Disc. Chirurg. sig. Fiii v Giue him to drinke the powder of Hogge lyce or Centum pedes.
1607 B. Jonson Volpone v. ii. sig. L3 Hee Will crumpe you, like a hog-louse, with the touch. View more context for this quotation
1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 35 He found in the water a great bunch..of those Insects, commonly called Hog lice or Millepedes.
1717 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 2) Cheeselip, an Insect, the same as the Sow or Hog-Louse.
1744 Philos. Trans. 1742–3 (Royal Soc.) 42 522 A few of one Sort, which rolled themselves up like Millepedes, or Hog-lice.
1805 P. Wakefield Domest. Recreat. (1806) i. 19 Hog-lice are used as medicine.
1858 A. M. Redfield Zoöl. Sci. 646 The species P[orcellio] granulatus,..or Hog-louse, is black and un-spotted.
2002 Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, Virginia) (Nexis) 5 Aug. b1 Home cures were once the main source of medicine. Hog lice were used to try to heal ulcers.
b. Any of various aquatic isopods and other crustaceans; esp. (more fully water hog-louse) a water slater (genus Asellus).
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Arthostraca > order Isopoda > miscellaneous types
cheslock1574
millipede1612
hog-louse1702
mole hog-louse1850
tanaid1893
1702 J. Petiver Gazophylacii I. 3 Asellus marinus, e nigro luteoque striatus. Sea-Hog-louse.
1753 H. Baker Employment for Microscope ii. xviii. 351 The Animal figured..bears so near a Resemblance in its general Appearance to the Millepedes, Sow or Hog-louse..that it may properly enough be called a Water Sow, or Water Hog-louse.
1850 A. White List Specim. Crustacea Brit. Mus. 67 Apseudes talpa, Mole Hog-louse.
1959 T. T. Macan Guide Freshwater Invertebr. Animals 33 The Crustacea are divided into four classes..: Phyllopoda,..Copepoda,..Ostracoda and Malacostraca (higher crustaceans such as crayfish, shrimps and hoglice).
1986 R. Fitter & R. Manuel Freshwater Life Brit. & N.-W. Europe 228 Hog-lice are very common in any permanent, stagnant or slow-flowing waters.
2000 Guardian 8 Jan. i. 23/6 I waded into a local stream purely for the purpose of collecting water hoglice and freshwater shrimps.
2. Chiefly U.S. The pig louse, Haematopinus suis.
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1863 A. S. Packard Our Common Insects vii. 84 The figures of the Bot fly of the horse, the turkey, duck and hog louse, the cattle tick, [etc.].
1896 J. B. Smith Econ. Entomol. ii. v. 104 (caption) Hog-louse, Hæmatopinus urius: the scansorial claw.
1931 K. M. Smith Textbk. Agric. Entomol. iv. 23 One species of agricultural importance is dealt with shortly; this is the hog louse.
2005 New Yorker 12 Dec. 77/3 The creosote is a good chemical protection against hog lice and other ectoparasites.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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