† sharnbudn.
Obsolete.
A dung beetle.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Lamellicornia Scarabaeoidea > family Scarabaeidae > member of (dung-beetle)
sharnbudc1000
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clock1568
sharn-bug1608
dung beetle1634
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comb-chafer1712
tumble-turd1754
tumble-dung1775
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tumbler1807
bull-comber1813
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shard-beetle1854
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scarabaeoid1887
scarabaeid1891
minotaur1918
c1000 Ælfric Gloss. (Z.) 308 Scarabeus scernwibba [MS. W scearnbudda].
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 61 Þet byeþ þe ssarnboddes þet beuleþ þe floures and louieþ þet dong.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 173 Lich to the Scharnebudes kinde.
1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum xii. iv. (Tollemache MS.) Scherne-boddes beþ gendrid of careynes of horses.
a1440 Pallad. on Husb. ix. 60 Now sharnebodde encumberith the bee; Pursue on hym that slayn anoon he be.
?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 767/28 Hic stabo, a scarbude.]
1596 L. Mascall Bk. Cattell i. 57 A bettle fly, cald of some a shumbarb [sic], which creepeth commonly on horse dung, or other dung.
1681 J. Chetham Angler's Vade Mecum iv. 45 A young Beetle, or Sharn-bud, which is found in a Cow-turd.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 213/1 The Sweet Scented Beetle, or Shorn-Bud.
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