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UK
/ˈiəwɪɡ/
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NOUN
- any of numerous insects of the order Dermaptera having elongate bodies and slender many-jointed antennae and a pair of large pincers at the rear of the abdomen
How To Use earwig In A Sentence
- She was even with her hubby, the Labour wa it loads of calls, all work related (yes I was big style earwigging), and I was quite impressed that they were travelling cattle class. Army Rumour Service
- On Saint Helena there existed, at least until recently, a species of giant earwig—the world’s largest and no doubt most repulsive dermapteran insect. The Song of The Dodo
- 'It was hardly undercover/he went on. 1 just went to a few games, drank in a few pubs and earwigged a few conversations. Be My Enemy
- From shamelessly earwigging the author's conversation with her friend we learnt the following facts: Advances -- part 2
- When it comes to the debates, he will need an 'earwig' so he can be fed answers like on that game show movie. Latest Articles
- Even earwigs can be useful because they eat aphids, codling moth eggs and the red spider mite.
- The morning after Brian left, she came waddling out to the adorable, earwiggy, rose-covered summer-house that I'd annexed as a private sitting room. Everyman's Land
- Ladies did not disdain those pagan ironed times of the firs; city (called after the ugliest Danadune) when a frond was a friend inneed to carry, as earwigs do their dead, their soil to the earth-ball where indeeth we shall calm decline, our legacy unknown. Finnegans Wake
- They went on about benefits, making ends meet and why New Labour is so out of touch with the plight of those on the dole as I nodded surreptitiously into my pint, earwigging all the while.
- Rising late in the morning to tents mysteriously full of earwigs we set off for a look.