anglewormとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• angle worm, angle-worm

語源

angle +‎ worm

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈæŋ.ɡəlˌwɜɹm/

名詞

angleworm (複数形 angleworms)

1. (Northern 米国用法) An earthworm, used as or destined to be used as bait to catch fish.
   • a. 1887 (date written)​, Emily Dickinson, “In the Garden”, in Mabel Loomis Todd and T[homas] W[entworth] Higginson, editors, Poems, Second Series, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, published 1891, page 140:

     A bird came down the walk : / He did not know I saw ; / He bit an angle-worm in halves / And ate the fellow, raw.

   • 1898, Guy Wetmore Carryl, The Precipitate Cock and the Unappreciated Pearl

     He turned again to where his clan

     In one astounding tangle

     With eager haste together ran

     To slay the helpless angle

参考

• nightcrawler
• red wiggler

アナグラム

• Low German, lawmonger