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woubit

woubit is the alternative form of oobit.

Meaning of oobit

Noun

oobit (plural oobits)

  1. (Northern England, obsolete) A caterpillar.
    • Of course, I need scarcely say that the existence of dealers who purvey to the wants of aspiring naturalists, was entirely unknown to me ; and even if I had known, the probability is that my parents would have thought twice before they granted me money in order to purchase accommodation for such...1887, Hardwicke's Science-gossip, page 169

Forms of woubit

pluralwoubits

Questions about woubit

What is woubit the alternative form of?
Woubit is the alternative form of oobit.

Words near woubit in the dictionary

  1. wou'd
  2. wou'dn't
  3. wou'dst
  4. wou-wou
  5. wou-wous
  6. woubit
  7. woubits
  8. wough
  9. woughs
  10. Woughton
  11. would

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Adapted from Wiktionary: woubit (page history and authors); oobit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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