woubitoobitn.

Forms: α. Middle English wolbode ( welbode), wolle bode; Middle English welbede, 1500s wolbede, 1600s wolbet, volbet; 1600s wool-beard, woollbed, 1700s wool bed. β. Scottish1500s wowbat, woubet ( voubet), wobat, 1800s vowbet, woubit. γ. northern and Scottish1600s oubut, 1800s oubit, oobit, ubit, yeubit, hoobit, hubert; obeed.

Etymology: Middle English wolbode and wolbede , apparently < wol wool n. with obscure second element; the form -bode may be connected with boud n. or budde n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈwoubit.

dialect.

A hairy caterpillar, esp. the larva of the tiger-moth; a ‘woolly bear’. Also transferred (and attributive) applied contemptuously to a person.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > larva > hairy

woubit1483

palmer1538

bear worm1577

furry1598

tailor-fly1682

woolly boy1805

tailor1816

woolly bear1863

miller1883

woolly worm1909

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Arctiidae > member of (tiger-moth) > larva or woolly bear

woubit1483

woolly boy1805

woolly bear1863

α.

1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 423 A Wolle bode ?c1475 BL Add. (Wolbode), multipes.

1496 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle in Bk. St. Albans (rev. ed.) sig. ij Bynde it on your hoke with fletchers sylke: and make it rough lyke a welbede.

a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 706 Multipes, a welbode.

15.. Ortus Vocabulorum (Shrewbury MS.) Wolbede.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxix. v. 369 The Wooll-beads or Caterpillers,..which are a kind of earth~wormes.., all hairie, having many feet, and courbing arch~wise as they creepe.

1662 R. Venables Experienc'd Angler iii. 27 Those rough insects (which some call Wooll-beds, because of their wool-like outside, and rings of divers colours).

1681 J. Chetham Angler's Vade Mecum iv. 29 Palmer worm, Palmer fly, Wool-bed. Are all one Worm.

1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 18.

β. a1513 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen in Poems (1998) I. 43 Ane wallidrag, ane worme, ane auld wobat carle.1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) xxxiv. 94 Swa ladeis will nocht sounȝe With waistit wowbattis rottin.a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 268 Wan~shapen woubet [v.r wowbat, wolbet], of the weirds invyit.a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 614 An warloch, an warwolfe, an voubet but haire.1802 J. Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry Gloss. Woubit, Oubit, one of those worms which appear as if covered with wool.1809 Edinb. Rev. 14 143 The hairy vowbet, or yeubit,..is the name given by boys [in Berwickshire] to the caterpillar of the tiger-moth.γ. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 103 The English-Northren-men, call the hairie Catterpillers, Oubuts.c1800 Ayrs. Gl. Surv. 693 (Jam.) Ubit, dwarfish.1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Oobit, a hairy worm, with alternate rings of black and dark yellow.1851 C. Kingsley Oubit in Poems It was an hairy oubit, sae proud he crept alang.1861 J. Brown Horæ Subsecivæ 2nd Ser. II. 117 Very like a huge caterpillar or hairy oobit.1865– in dialect glossaries, etc. (see Eng. Dial. Dict. ).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	woubit
释义	woubitoobitn. Forms: α. Middle English wolbode ( welbode), wolle bode; Middle English welbede, 1500s wolbede, 1600s wolbet, volbet; 1600s wool-beard, woollbed, 1700s wool bed. β. Scottish1500s wowbat, woubet ( voubet), wobat, 1800s vowbet, woubit. γ. northern and Scottish1600s oubut, 1800s oubit, oobit, ubit, yeubit, hoobit, hubert; obeed. Etymology: Middle English wolbode and wolbede , apparently < wol wool n. with obscure second element; the form -bode may be connected with boud n. or budde n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈwoubit. dialect. A hairy caterpillar, esp. the larva of the tiger-moth; a ‘woolly bear’. Also transferred (and attributive) applied contemptuously to a person. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Lepidoptera or butterflies and moths > [noun] > larva > hairy woubit1483 palmer1538 bear worm1577 furry1598 tailor-fly1682 woolly boy1805 tailor1816 woolly bear1863 miller1883 woolly worm1909 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Arctiidae > member of (tiger-moth) > larva or woolly bear woubit1483 woolly boy1805 woolly bear1863 α. 1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 423 A Wolle bode ?c1475 BL Add. (Wolbode), multipes. 1496 Treat. Fysshynge wyth Angle in Bk. St. Albans (rev. ed.) sig. ij Bynde it on your hoke with fletchers sylke: and make it rough lyke a welbede. a1500 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 706 Multipes, a welbode. 15.. Ortus Vocabulorum (Shrewbury MS.) Wolbede. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxix. v. 369 The Wooll-beads or Caterpillers,..which are a kind of earth~wormes.., all hairie, having many feet, and courbing arch~wise as they creepe. 1662 R. Venables Experienc'd Angler iii. 27 Those rough insects (which some call Wooll-beds, because of their wool-like outside, and rings of divers colours). 1681 J. Chetham Angler's Vade Mecum iv. 29 Palmer worm, Palmer fly, Wool-bed. Are all one Worm. 1787 T. Best Conc. Treat. Angling (ed. 2) 18. β. a1513 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen in Poems (1998) I. 43 Ane wallidrag, ane worme, ane auld wobat carle.1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) xxxiv. 94 Swa ladeis will nocht sounȝe With waistit wowbattis rottin.a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 268 Wan~shapen woubet [v.r wowbat, wolbet], of the weirds invyit.a1585 A. Montgomerie Flyting with Polwart 614 An warloch, an warwolfe, an voubet but haire.1802 J. Sibbald Chron. Sc. Poetry Gloss. Woubit, Oubit, one of those worms which appear as if covered with wool.1809 Edinb. Rev. 14 143 The hairy vowbet, or yeubit,..is the name given by boys [in Berwickshire] to the caterpillar of the tiger-moth.γ. 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 103 The English-Northren-men, call the hairie Catterpillers, Oubuts.c1800 Ayrs. Gl. Surv. 693 (Jam.) Ubit, dwarfish.1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Oobit, a hairy worm, with alternate rings of black and dark yellow.1851 C. Kingsley Oubit in Poems It was an hairy oubit, sae proud he crept alang.1861 J. Brown Horæ Subsecivæ 2nd Ser. II. 117 Very like a huge caterpillar or hairy oobit.1865– in dialect glossaries, etc. (see Eng. Dial. Dict. ). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1483
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