Talk:earwig
Latest comment: 12 years ago by Kittybriton
Etymology
editIn support of the etymology of this word I should like to submit the following citation from Notes and Queries, vol. IV, no.108, digitized by Project Gutenberg:
In Bailey's Scottish Dictionary, and in Skinner's Etymologicon, it is traced to the Anglo-Saxon ear-wicga, i.e. ear-beetle.