A British dialect name for an earwig (Forficula auricularia), named for the insect's prominent rear pincers that give it a fighting appearance.
A British dialect name for an earwig (Forficula auricularia), named for the insect's prominent rear pincers that give it a fighting appearance. The earwig's scientific genus name Forficula refers to its scissor-like appendages. 'Battle-twig' is one of many colorful British dialect names for the earwig.
She found a battle-twig in the strawberry punnet and nearly dropped the whole thing.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(Geordie) An earwig ( spp.).
(Scotland) Earwig.
(British, Ireland, colloquial, dated) A telling-off or reprimand.
Any of various insects of the order that have elongated bodies, large membranous wings folded underneath short leathery forewings and a pair of large pincers protruding from the rear of the abdomen.
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(UK, dialect) An earwig.
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