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chovy, chovee
The popular name in the East of England of the June-bug, Phyllopertha Horticola, a small beetle, related to the common cockchafer.
1813Sir J. Cullum Hawstead (Sussex) Wds. (E.D.S. Repr. Gl. 1879, 86) Chovee, a small beetle, of a bright chest⁓nut colour, and with a green gilded head and corslet. 1830Forby Gloss. E. Anglia, Chovy, a small coleopterous insect, which invades gardens and orchards in hot summers, in our sandy districts..in such swarms as to be nearly equal to a plague of locusts. 1884Chr. World 18 Sept. 697/2 The sparrow..eats ‘chovies’, or May bugs. |