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slow-worm

slow-worm is the alternative form of slowworm.

Meaning of slowworm

Noun

slowworm (plural slowworms)

  1. A small Old World lizard, Anguis fragilis, often mistaken for a snake, having no legs and small eyes.
    • Well, sir, it may be we shall have some better orations of it anon: well, Ile watch you as narrowly as ever you were watcht, and Ile play with you as the nightingale with the slowworme;[…]c. 1588, Robert Greene, “Scene Eleventh. Frier Bacons cell.”, in The Honorable Historie of Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay

Forms of slow-worm

pluralslow-worms

Questions about slow-worm

What is slow-worm the alternative form of?
Slow-worm is the alternative form of slowworm.

Words near slow-worm in the dictionary

  1. slow-walks
  2. slow-wave
  3. slow-witted
  4. slow-wittedly
  5. slow-wittedness
  6. slow-worm
  7. slow-worms
  8. Slowaris
  9. slowass
  10. slowback
  11. slowbacks

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