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earwig

[ UK /ˈi‍əwɪɡ/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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

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  • 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.
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