英语词汇earwig的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

earwig. The nocturnal earwig (Forficula auricularia) is a common garden pest, but it won’t wiggle or wriggle into peo- ple’s ears and then drill its way into the brain with the aid of its large pincers. Yet it was exactly this popular superstition that gave the earwig, or ear-wiggle, its name over a thousand years ago. One English writer even instructed: “If an earwig begotten into your eare . . . spit into the same, and it will come forth anon. . . .” Good trick if you can do it. To earwig someone is to fill his mind with prejudices by insinuations, by whispering into his ear and wriggling into his confidence.

词汇	earwig
词源	earwig. The nocturnal earwig (Forficula auricularia) is a common garden pest, but it won’t wiggle or wriggle into peo- ple’s ears and then drill its way into the brain with the aid of its large pincers. Yet it was exactly this popular superstition that gave the earwig, or ear-wiggle, its name over a thousand years ago. One English writer even instructed: “If an earwig begotten into your eare . . . spit into the same, and it will come forth anon. . . .” Good trick if you can do it. To earwig someone is to fill his mind with prejudices by insinuations, by whispering into his ear and wriggling into his confidence.
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