英语词汇“hagworm”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

hagworm

释义

hagworm dial.|ˈhægwɜːm|
[a. ON. hǫggormr, the adder, f. hǫgg (:—haggw-) cutting stroke + ormr worm. (In different localities hag seems to be taken as = copse, hedge, or bog.)]
A northern name for the adder or viper; but in some districts applied to the common snake, and in others to the blindworm.
1483Cath. Angl. 169/2 An Hagworme, jaculus.1631R. H. Arraignm. Whole Creature ix. 69 That great hag⁓worme of a Corroding Conscience.1787Grose Provinc. Gloss., Hag-worms, snakes of all kinds. Yorks.1828Craven Dial., Hag-worm, a snake, or blind worm, haunting the hag or hedge.1844Selby in Proc. Berw. Nat. Club II. No. 12. 87 A large specimen of the Slow or Hag-worm, Anguis fragilis.1858Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. II. lxvii. 6 A snake (a poor harmless creature, by the way..always excepting the hag-worm).1891Atkinson Moorland Par. 313, I could account for the presence of the hag worm three or four feet below the surface of the hone.

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