anglewormとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• angle worm, angle-worm

語源

From angle +‎ worm.

発音

• IPA: /ˈæŋ.ɡəlˌwɜɹm/

名詞

angleworm (plural angleworms)

1. (chiefly US) An earthworm, used as or destined to be used as bait to catch fish. [from 18th c.]
   • 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.

   • 1975, Larry Woiwode, Beyond the Bedroom Wall, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, page 192:

     [B]eneath their surface—now and then breaking through a reflection, revealed when the pools dried—were salamanders, newts, and tangled clumps of angleworms.

参考

• nightcrawler
• red wiggler

アナグラム

• Low German, lawmonger