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earwiggy

earwiggy adjective: infested with earwigs.

Adjective

earwiggy (comparative more earwiggy, superlative most earwiggy)

  1. Infested with earwigs.
    • Amy had a bower in hers, rather small and earwiggy, but very pretty to look at, with honeysuckle and morning-glories hanging their colored horns and bells...1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
    • The lady is whisked off as unceremoniously as though she were a Sabino damsel; she is transported to a dusty and, I fear, an earwiggy conservatory, […]1905, Harper's Magazine

Forms of earwiggy

comparativemore earwiggy
superlativemost earwiggy

Origin of earwiggy

From earwig + -y.

Questions about earwiggy

What does earwiggy mean?
Earwiggy means infested with earwigs.
What part of speech is earwiggy?
Earwiggy is an adjective.

Words near earwiggy in the dictionary

  1. earwigged
  2. earwigger
  3. earwiggers
  4. earwigging
  5. earwiggings
  6. earwiggy
  7. earwigs
  8. earwire
  9. earwires
  10. earwitness
  11. earwitnessed

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