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clipshear

clipshear noun: earwig.

Noun

clipshear (plural clipshears)

  1. (Scotland) Earwig
    • I looked over the stair-windows, however, and saw the back green, which smells of clipshears and clockers, as of yore.1888, David Gray, Josephus Nelson Larned, Life, letters, poems, etc, page 7
    • I also learned from my father how to drown baby mice in a rain barrel, crush a clipshear between my thumbnails, and assist in the skinning of a rabbit.2004, Jennie Erdal, Ghosting: A Memoir, page 20

Forms of clipshear

pluralclipshears

Questions about clipshear

What does clipshear mean?
Clipshear means earwig.
What part of speech is clipshear?
Clipshear is a noun.
What is the plural of clipshear?
The plural of clipshear is clipshears.

Words near clipshear in the dictionary

  1. clips
  2. clips it
  3. clips someone's wings
  4. clips the church
  5. clips the wings of
  6. clipshear
  7. clipshears
  8. clipsheet
  9. clipsheets
  10. clipsing
  11. clipsome

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