earwiggy
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]earwiggy (comparative more earwiggy, superlative most earwiggy)
- Infested with earwigs.
- 1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women:
- 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...
- 1905, Harper's Magazine:
- 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,...
- 1989, Jan Harold Brunvand, Curses! Broiled Again!:
- So while an earwig can indeed crawl into a person's ear, it seems that a place has to be pretty darn earwiggy for such a thing to happen by chance.