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† ˈangletwitch, -touch Obs. or dial.
Forms: 1 -twæcca, -twicce, 2 -twæcche, 4–6 -twytche, -twitche, 5–6 angle-twache, 5–7 -towch, -touch.
[? f. angle n.1 + OE. *twæcca, *twicce, app. connected with vb. twiccean, twitch, of which the OHG. cognate zwickan, MHG. zwicken (also zwacken) had orig. the sense ‘to pierce or transfix as with a nail,’ f. zwec ‘nail, peg, pin.’ Halliw. gives twachel in east. dial. = dew-worm.]
A worm used as bait in fishing; an earth-worm. (Not mentioned by Izaak Walton, but still used in various south. dialects.)
c940Sax. Leechd. II. 44 Genim angeltwæccean ᵹehalne, leᵹe on þa stowe. c1000ælfric Voc. in Wright Voc. 24 Lumbricus, ren-wyrm, vel angeltwicce. [MS. c 1150 ibid. 90/2 Lubricus, ongel-twæcche.] 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. cxv. (1495) 856 Wyth angyltwytches fysshe is taken..Molles hunte Angyltwytches vnder erthe. 1513Stanbridge Voc. in Promp. Parv. 12 Angletwache, lumbricus. [ed. 1615 Angle-touch]. 1562W. Bullein Sorenes 22 b, Rosed oile, wherin Angletwitches, or yearth Wormes haue been sodden. 1602Carew Cornwall 26 a, His baites are..Tag-wormes, which the Cornish English term Angle-touches. 1864E. Capern Devon Provinc., Angle-Twitch, the common earth-worm. |