- sláwyrm
- [sla·würm] m (-es/-as) slow-worm, blind-worm, snake
Old to modern English dictionary. 2013.
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slowworm — noun small burrowing legless European lizard with tiny eyes; popularly believed to be blind • Syn: ↑blindworm, ↑Anguis fragilis • Hypernyms: ↑anguid lizard • Member Holonyms: ↑Anguis, ↑genus Anguis * * * … Useful english dictionary
slowworm — noun Etymology: Middle English sloworm, from Old English slāwyrm, from slā (akin to Swedish slå earthworm) + wyrm worm Date: before 12th century a burrowing limbless European lizard (Anguis fragilis) with small eyes called also blindworm … New Collegiate Dictionary
slowworm — /sloh werrm /, n. blindworm (def. 2). [bef. 900; SLOW + WORM; r. ME slowerm, slowurme, OE slawerm, slawyrm, equiv. to sla (cf. dial. Sw slo, Norw slo slowworm) + wyrm worm] * * * ▪ lizard also called blindworm a legless lizard of the… … Universalium
sláwerm — see sláwyrm … Old to modern English dictionary
slow-worm — noun a small snake like legless lizard that gives birth to live young. [Anguis fragilis.] Origin OE slāwyrm, from slā (of uncertain origin) + wyrm snake … English new terms dictionary
slowworm — [slōwʉrm΄] n. [altered (by assoc. with SLOW) < ME slaworme < OE slawyrm < sla , akin to Norw slo, slowworm, ult. < IE base * (s)lei , slimy (> LIME1, Gr leimax, snail) + OE wyrm, WORM] BLINDWORM … English World dictionary
