angletouchとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

angletouch (plural angletouches)

1. (rare, obsolete, regional, Wales) Earthworm.
   • 1953, F.E. Halliday, Richard Carew of Antony, The Survey of Cornwall‎, page 119:

     The lug is a worm resembling the tagworm or angletouch, and lying in the ooze somewhat deep from whence the women dig them up and sell them to the fishermen [...]

Further reading

• 1894. Colegrove, William. History and genealogy of the Colegrove family in America.

I noticed that the common earth worms, — usually called angle-worms, and sometimes termed Easter-worms, — were in our family called angle-dogs but not so by the neighbors. I afterwards learned, that "angletouch" was a local name for worm in the little Peninsula of Grower in Wales. (See Latham's Eng. Language, p. 562.) Here was evidently the origin of the "angle-dog"; and I said "Our people then sprung from Wales."

参照

• "angletouch". The Oxford English Dictionary.