单词 | earwig |
释义 | Related topics: Insectsear·wig /ˈɪəˌwɪɡ $ ˈɪr-/ noun [countable] HBIa long brown insect with two curved pointed parts at the back end of its body 蠼螋 →4 See picture of 见图 INSECT →5 see picture at 见图 insectExamples from the Corpusearwig• When I was nine I tried, unsuccessfully, to stop some boys drowning an earwig.• Probably scream if an earwig crawled into the sleeping-bag - and that was the other thing.• There were no earwigs in the Scarinish Hotel bedroom, just two flies and a moth.• The next day when the pinecones were collected up they were full of earwigs.• Gardener's Tips Earwig Traps Quite by accident we have found a good way to trapping earwigs.• One sufferer nearly died after gulping two earwigs. 16.Origin earwig Old English earwicga “ear-insect”; because it used to be believed that these insects get into people's earsear·wig nounChineseSyllable Corpus the long a at brown two insect with pointed curved parts |
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