单词 | twitch-bell |
释义 | > as lemmastwitch-bell twitch-bell n. [perhaps ultimately showing an alteration of beetle n.2 in the second element] an earwig. 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 1722 A. M. Thoughts of Project for draining Irish Channel 20 The Sea-Earwick, or Twitch-bell, the Tadpole, the Water-Lop. 1790 F. Grose Provinc. Gloss. (ed. 2) Twitchbell, an earwig. North. 1863 J. P. Robson Songs Bards of Tyne 237 Nee spiders an twitchbells to 'larm ye. 2005 S. Elmes Talking for Brit. viii. 193 David, in his seventies.., ventures the local word for earwig ‘twitchbell’ at the top end of the East Riding. < as lemmas |
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