2. Verb. (third-person singular of earwig) ¹
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Definition of Earwigs
1. earwig [v] - See also: earwig
Lexicographical Neighbors of Earwigs
Literary usage of Earwigs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"These are the insects which are properly known by the vernacular name, earwigs.
They are so distinct in structure from all other insects that they are now ..."
2. A Manual on the Study of Insects by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1895)
"The earwigs. Tlic members of tins order hare apparently four wings ; the first
pair of which are leathery, very small, without reins, and when at rest meet ..."
3. An Introduction to Entomology: Or, Elements of the Natural History of by William Kirby, William Spence (1843)
"Many persons are not aware that the insects of the next order, the Dermaptera,
can fly; but earwigs (Forficula), their size considered, are furnished with ..."
4. The Family Receipt Book: Containing Eight Hundred Valuable Receipts in by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1819)
"Easy method of attracting earwigs from the ear. ... To kill earwigs, or other
insects, which may accidentally have crept into the ear. ..."
5. Rural Rides in the Counties of Surrey, Kent, Sussex, Hants, Berks, Oxford by William Cobbett (1908)
"... or things like chimneys; little brick columns, with a sort of caps on them,
looking like carnation sticks, with caps at the top to catch the earwigs. ..."
6. Flashlights on Nature by Grant Allen (1905)
"VI THOSE HORRID earwigs THIS is an age of vindications. Robespierre has been
vindicated, and so has Marat ; officious apologists have attempted to whitewash ..."
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