skin worm
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]skin + worm, in later use partly after German Hautwurm.
Noun
[edit]skin worm (plural skin worms)
- A small worm or other parasite which infects the skin.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- Alike desires perturbe both a skinne-worme [translating ciron], and an Elephant.