angledogn.
/ˈaŋɡlˌdɒɡ/, U.S. /ˈæŋɡəlˌdɔɡ/, /ˈæŋɡəlˌdɑɡ/ regional (now chiefly U.S.).
An earthworm; = angleworm n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > bait > worms and grubs
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angledog1832
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hellgrammite1866
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snake doctora1883
1832 W. C. Bryant Medfield in Tales of Glauber-Spa I. 247 I had engaged a black fellow to procure me a box of earth-worms, or ‘angle-dogs’, as he called them.
1867 ‘T. Lackland’ Homespun i. 96 We pocketed the well-scoured angle-dogs, shouldered our birch fishing-rod, and sallied forth.
1889 Rep. Provincialisms in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1898) I. 58/2 At Culmstock [in Devon] a farmer, speaking of loose straw on pasture, said, ‘You'd be surprise how zoon th' angle-dogs'll draw it down.’
1969 Eng. Jrnl. 58 1225/1 To the New Englander an earthworm may be an angleworm, an angledog, an easworm, an easterworm, or a mud-worm.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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