glow-wormn.

Brit.

/ˈɡləʊwəːm/, U.S.

/ˈɡloʊˌwərm/

Forms: Middle English glou-, Middle English gloo-, 1500s–1600s glo-, gloe-, glowe-, 1500s– glow-worm (etc.: see worm n.). See also glose-worm n.

Etymology: < glow v.¹ + worm n.

a. A coleopterous insect ( Lampyris noctiluca, Linn.), the female of which emits a shining green light from the extremity of the abdomen. The female is wingless; the male is winged, but non-luminous.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Lampyridae > lampyris noctiluca (glow-worm)

glow-wormc1320

gold worm?c1475

glowbard?a1500

silver-worm?a1500

glose-worm1519

glass-worm1552

glaze-worm1578

glare-worm1607

night-worm1774

glow-bug1781

fireworm1821

glow-beetle1860

c1320 N. Bozon Contes Moralisés §76. 95 Un autre nature de ceo verm qe est appelle en Latyn eruke et en Engleiz glouworm.

1444 J. Lydgate in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 216 A fowle gloowerm in dirknesse shewith a lyght.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 225/2 Glowe worme that shyneth by night.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 212^v In this Iland are certeyne glo woormes that shyne in the nyght as doo owres.

1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 89 The Glo-worme..gin's to pale his vneffectuall fire.

1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §224 A great Light drowneth a smaller, that it cannot be seene; As the Sunne that of a Gloworme.

c1750 W. Shenstone Elegies vi. 30 No lover bless'd the glow-worm's pallid ray.

a1793 G. White Observ. Insects in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1802) II. 239 Male glow-worms, attracted by the light..come into the parlour.

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iv. 65 Where below No bigger than a glow-worm shone the tent.

b. figurative. (In 17th cent. often applied contemptuously to persons.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > [noun]

dizzyc825

cang?c1225

foolc1225

apec1330

mopc1330

saddle-goosec1346

mis-feelinga1382

foltc1390

mopec1390

fona1400

buffardc1430

fopc1440

joppec1440

fonda1450

fondlinga1450

insipienta1513

plume of feathers1530

bobolynec1540

dizzard1546

Little Witham?1548

nodc1563

dawkin1565

cocknel1566

nigion1570

niddicock1577

nodcock1577

cuckoo1581

Jack with the feather1581

niddipol1582

noddyship?1589

stirkc1590

fonkin1591

Gibraltar1593

fopper1598

noddypeak1598

coxcombry1600

simple1600

gowka1605

nup1607

fooliaminy1608

silly ass1608

dosser-head1612

dor1616

glow-worm1624

liripipea1625

doodle1629

sop1637

spalt1639

fool's head1650

buffle1655

Jack Adams1656

bufflehead1659

nincompoopc1668

bavian1678

nokes1679

foolanea1681

cod1699

hulver-head1699

nigmenog1699

single ten1699

mud1703

dowf1722

foolatum1740

silly billy1749

tommy noddy1774

arsec1785

nincom1800

silly1807

slob1810

omadhaun1818

potwalloper1820

mosy1824

amadan1825

gump1825

gype1825

oonchook1825

prawn1845

suck-egg1851

goosey1852

nowmun1854

pelican1856

poppy-show1860

buggerlugs1861

damfool1881

mudhead1882

yob1886

peanut head1891

haggis bag1892

poop1893

gazob1906

mush1906

wump1908

zob1911

gorm1912

goof1916

goofus1916

gubbins1916

dumb cluck1922

twat1922

B.F.1925

goofer1925

bird brain1926

berk1929

Berkeley1929

Berkeley Hunt1929

ding1929

loogan1929

stupido1929

poop-stick1930

nelly1931

droop1932

diddy1933

slappy1937

goof ball1938

get1940

poon1940

tonk1941

clot1942

yuck1943

possum1945

gobdaw1947

momo1953

nig-nog1953

plonker1955

weenie1956

nong-nong1959

Berkshire Hunt1960

balloon1965

doofus1965

dork1965

nana1965

shit-for-brains1966

schmoll1967

tosspot1967

lunchbox1969

doof1971

tonto1973

dorkus1979

motorhead1979

mouth-breather1979

wally1980

wally brain1981

der-brain1983

langer1983

numpty1985

sotong1988

fanny1995

fannybaws2000

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person

wormc825

wretchOE

thingOE

hinderlingc1175

harlot?c1225

mixa1300

villain1303

whelpc1330

wonnera1340

bismera1400

vilec1400

beasta1425

creaturec1450

dog bolt1465

fouling?a1475

drivel1478

shit1508

marmoset1523

mammeta1529

pilgarlica1529

pode1528

slave1537

slim1548

skit-brains?1553

grasshopper1556

scavenger1563

old boss1566

rag1566

shrub1566

ketterela1572

shake-rag1571

skybala1572

mumpsimus1573

smatchetc1582

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Gibraltar1593

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nodc1595

cittern-head1598

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pettitoe1599

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cargo1602

stump1602

snotty-nose1604

sprat1605

wormling1605

brock1607

dogfly?1611

shag-rag1611

shack-rag1612

thrum1612

rabbita1616

fitchock1616

unworthy1616

baseling1618

shag1620

glow-worm1624

snip1633

the son of a worm1633

grousea1637

shab1637

wormship1648

muckworm1649

whiffler1659

prig1679

rotten egg1686

prigster1688

begged fool1693

hang-dog1693

bugger1694

reptile1697

squinny1716

snool1718

ramscallion1734

footer1748

jackass1756

hallion1789

skite1790

rattlesnake1791

snot1809

mudworm1814

skunk1816

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spalpeen1817

nyaff1825

skin1825

weed1825

tiger1827

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despicability1837

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prawn1845

shake1846

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tinhorn1887

snot-rag1888

rodent1889

whelpling1889

pie eatera1891

mess1891

schmuck1892

fucker1893

cheapskate1894

cocksucker1894

gutter-bird1896

perisher1896

skate1896

schmendrick1897

nyamps1900

ullage1901

fink1903

onion1904

punk1904

shitepoke1905

tinhorn sport1906

streeler1907

zob1911

stink1916

motherfucker1918

Oscar1918

shitass1918

shit-face1923

tripe-hound1923

gimp1924

garbage can1925

twerp1925

jughead1926

mong1926

fuck?1927

arsehole1928

dirty dog1928

gazook1928

muzzler1928

roach1929

shite1929

mook1930

lug1931

slug1931

woodchuck1931

crud1932

dip1932

bohunkus1933

lint-head1933

Nimrod1933

warb1933

fuck-piga1935

owl-hoot1934

pissant1935

poot1935

shmegegge1937

motheree1938

motorcycle1938

squiff1939

pendejo1940

snotnose1941

jerkface1942

slag1943

yuck1943

fuckface?1945

fuckhead?1945

shit-head1945

shite-hawk1948

schlub1950

asswipe1953

mother1955

weenie1956

hard-on1958

rass hole1959

schmucko1959

bitch ass1961

effer1961

lamer1961

arsewipe1962

asshole1962

butthole1962

cock1962

dipshit1963

motherfuck1964

dork1965

bumhole1967

mofo1967

tosspot1967

crudball1968

dipstick1968

douche1968

frickface1968

schlong1968

fuckwit1969

rassclaat1969

ass1970

wank1970

fecker1971

wanker1971

butt-fucker1972

slimeball1972

bloodclaat1973

fuckwad1974

mutha1974

suck1974

cocksuck1977

tosser1977

plank1981

sleazebag1981

spastic1981

dweeb1982

bumboclaat1983

dickwad1983

scuzzbag1983

sleazeball1983

butt-face1984

dickweed1984

saddie1985

butt plug1986

jerkweed1988

dick-sucker1989

microcephalic1989

wankstain1990

sadster1992

buttmunch1993

fanny1995

jackhole1996

fassyhole1997

fannybaws2000

fassy2002

1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) ii. iii. ii. 260 A Nobleman therefore in some likelyhood..[is] an outside, a gloworme, a proud foole, an arrant asse.

1628 T. Tymme Silver Watch-bell (ed. 10) ix. §7 164 Reason (which the Fathers call Noctilucam cerebri, the brains Glo-worme).

1634 J. Ford Chron. Hist. Perkin Warbeck iv. sig. H4 A Slaue... A Vagabond... A Glow-worme.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 152 The world is full of such glow-wormes, that make some show of Spriritual Light from God.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations.

ΚΠ

1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 47 How Glowworme-like the Sun doth now appeare.

1623 B. Jonson Time Vindicated 166 He works by glow-worme light, the Moone's too open.

1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 341/1 Though I know my selfe vnworthy farre, With my poore Glow-worme Muse, t'attend this starre.

a1649 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 174 How oft have we..Contemn'd Earths glow-worme Greatnesse.

1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 163 He..rais'd it [sc. his engine] till it level'd right, Against the Glow-worm Tayl of Kite.

1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada ii. ii. iii. 99 For, Glow-worm-like, you shine, and do not see.

1686 A. Horneck Crucified Jesus iv. 60 Meer glowworm light, that shines, but warms not.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	glow-worm
释义	glow-wormn. Brit. /ˈɡləʊwəːm/, U.S. /ˈɡloʊˌwərm/ Forms: Middle English glou-, Middle English gloo-, 1500s–1600s glo-, gloe-, glowe-, 1500s– glow-worm (etc.: see worm n.). See also glose-worm n. Etymology: < glow v.¹ + worm n. a. A coleopterous insect ( Lampyris noctiluca, Linn.), the female of which emits a shining green light from the extremity of the abdomen. The female is wingless; the male is winged, but non-luminous. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Lampyridae > lampyris noctiluca (glow-worm) glow-wormc1320 gold worm?c1475 glowbard?a1500 silver-worm?a1500 glose-worm1519 glass-worm1552 glaze-worm1578 glare-worm1607 night-worm1774 glow-bug1781 fireworm1821 glow-beetle1860 a. c1320 N. Bozon Contes Moralisés §76. 95 Un autre nature de ceo verm qe est appelle en Latyn eruke et en Engleiz glouworm. 1444 J. Lydgate in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 216 A fowle gloowerm in dirknesse shewith a lyght. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 225/2 Glowe worme that shyneth by night. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 212^v In this Iland are certeyne glo woormes that shyne in the nyght as doo owres. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 89 The Glo-worme..gin's to pale his vneffectuall fire. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §224 A great Light drowneth a smaller, that it cannot be seene; As the Sunne that of a Gloworme. c1750 W. Shenstone Elegies vi. 30 No lover bless'd the glow-worm's pallid ray. a1793 G. White Observ. Insects in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1802) II. 239 Male glow-worms, attracted by the light..come into the parlour. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess iv. 65 Where below No bigger than a glow-worm shone the tent. b. figurative. (In 17th cent. often applied contemptuously to persons.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupid, foolish, or inadequate person > foolish person, fool > [noun] dizzyc825 cang?c1225 foolc1225 apec1330 mopc1330 saddle-goosec1346 mis-feelinga1382 foltc1390 mopec1390 fona1400 buffardc1430 fopc1440 joppec1440 fonda1450 fondlinga1450 insipienta1513 plume of feathers1530 bobolynec1540 dizzard1546 Little Witham?1548 nodc1563 dawkin1565 cocknel1566 nigion1570 niddicock1577 nodcock1577 cuckoo1581 Jack with the feather1581 niddipol1582 noddyship?1589 stirkc1590 fonkin1591 Gibraltar1593 fopper1598 noddypeak1598 coxcombry1600 simple1600 gowka1605 nup1607 fooliaminy1608 silly ass1608 dosser-head1612 dor1616 glow-worm1624 liripipea1625 doodle1629 sop1637 spalt1639 fool's head1650 buffle1655 Jack Adams1656 bufflehead1659 nincompoopc1668 bavian1678 nokes1679 foolanea1681 cod1699 hulver-head1699 nigmenog1699 single ten1699 mud1703 dowf1722 foolatum1740 silly billy1749 tommy noddy1774 arsec1785 nincom1800 silly1807 slob1810 omadhaun1818 potwalloper1820 mosy1824 amadan1825 gump1825 gype1825 oonchook1825 prawn1845 suck-egg1851 goosey1852 nowmun1854 pelican1856 poppy-show1860 buggerlugs1861 damfool1881 mudhead1882 yob1886 peanut head1891 haggis bag1892 poop1893 gazob1906 mush1906 wump1908 zob1911 gorm1912 goof1916 goofus1916 gubbins1916 dumb cluck1922 twat1922 B.F.1925 goofer1925 bird brain1926 berk1929 Berkeley1929 Berkeley Hunt1929 ding1929 loogan1929 stupido1929 poop-stick1930 nelly1931 droop1932 diddy1933 slappy1937 goof ball1938 get1940 poon1940 tonk1941 clot1942 yuck1943 possum1945 gobdaw1947 momo1953 nig-nog1953 plonker1955 weenie1956 nong-nong1959 Berkshire Hunt1960 balloon1965 doofus1965 dork1965 nana1965 shit-for-brains1966 schmoll1967 tosspot1967 lunchbox1969 doof1971 tonto1973 dorkus1979 motorhead1979 mouth-breather1979 wally1980 wally brain1981 der-brain1983 langer1983 numpty1985 sotong1988 fanny1995 fannybaws2000 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person wormc825 wretchOE thingOE hinderlingc1175 harlot?c1225 mixa1300 villain1303 whelpc1330 wonnera1340 bismera1400 vilec1400 beasta1425 creaturec1450 dog bolt1465 fouling?a1475 drivel1478 shit1508 marmoset1523 mammeta1529 pilgarlica1529 pode1528 slave1537 slim1548 skit-brains?1553 grasshopper1556 scavenger1563 old boss1566 rag1566 shrub1566 ketterela1572 shake-rag1571 skybala1572 mumpsimus1573 smatchetc1582 squib1586 scabship1589 vassal1589 baboon1592 Gibraltar1593 polecat1593 mushroom1594 nodc1595 cittern-head1598 nit1598 stockfish1598 cum-twang1599 dish-wash1599 pettitoe1599 mustard-token1600 viliaco1600 cargo1602 stump1602 snotty-nose1604 sprat1605 wormling1605 brock1607 dogfly?1611 shag-rag1611 shack-rag1612 thrum1612 rabbita1616 fitchock1616 unworthy1616 baseling1618 shag1620 glow-worm1624 snip1633 the son of a worm1633 grousea1637 shab1637 wormship1648 muckworm1649 whiffler1659 prig1679 rotten egg1686 prigster1688 begged fool1693 hang-dog1693 bugger1694 reptile1697 squinny1716 snool1718 ramscallion1734 footer1748 jackass1756 hallion1789 skite1790 rattlesnake1791 snot1809 mudworm1814 skunk1816 stirrah1816 spalpeen1817 nyaff1825 skin1825 weed1825 tiger1827 beggar1834 despicability1837 squirt1844 prawn1845 shake1846 white mouse1846 scurf1851 sweep1853 cockroach1856 bummer1857 medlar1859 cunt1860 shuck1862 missing link1863 schweinhund1871 creepa1876 bum1882 trashbag1886 tinhorn1887 snot-rag1888 rodent1889 whelpling1889 pie eatera1891 mess1891 schmuck1892 fucker1893 cheapskate1894 cocksucker1894 gutter-bird1896 perisher1896 skate1896 schmendrick1897 nyamps1900 ullage1901 fink1903 onion1904 punk1904 shitepoke1905 tinhorn sport1906 streeler1907 zob1911 stink1916 motherfucker1918 Oscar1918 shitass1918 shit-face1923 tripe-hound1923 gimp1924 garbage can1925 twerp1925 jughead1926 mong1926 fuck?1927 arsehole1928 dirty dog1928 gazook1928 muzzler1928 roach1929 shite1929 mook1930 lug1931 slug1931 woodchuck1931 crud1932 dip1932 bohunkus1933 lint-head1933 Nimrod1933 warb1933 fuck-piga1935 owl-hoot1934 pissant1935 poot1935 shmegegge1937 motheree1938 motorcycle1938 squiff1939 pendejo1940 snotnose1941 jerkface1942 slag1943 yuck1943 fuckface?1945 fuckhead?1945 shit-head1945 shite-hawk1948 schlub1950 asswipe1953 mother1955 weenie1956 hard-on1958 rass hole1959 schmucko1959 bitch ass1961 effer1961 lamer1961 arsewipe1962 asshole1962 butthole1962 cock1962 dipshit1963 motherfuck1964 dork1965 bumhole1967 mofo1967 tosspot1967 crudball1968 dipstick1968 douche1968 frickface1968 schlong1968 fuckwit1969 rassclaat1969 ass1970 wank1970 fecker1971 wanker1971 butt-fucker1972 slimeball1972 bloodclaat1973 fuckwad1974 mutha1974 suck1974 cocksuck1977 tosser1977 plank1981 sleazebag1981 spastic1981 dweeb1982 bumboclaat1983 dickwad1983 scuzzbag1983 sleazeball1983 butt-face1984 dickweed1984 saddie1985 butt plug1986 jerkweed1988 dick-sucker1989 microcephalic1989 wankstain1990 sadster1992 buttmunch1993 fanny1995 jackhole1996 fassyhole1997 fannybaws2000 fassy2002 1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) ii. iii. ii. 260 A Nobleman therefore in some likelyhood..[is] an outside, a gloworme, a proud foole, an arrant asse. 1628 T. Tymme Silver Watch-bell (ed. 10) ix. §7 164 Reason (which the Fathers call Noctilucam cerebri, the brains Glo-worme). 1634 J. Ford Chron. Hist. Perkin Warbeck iv. sig. H4 A Slaue... A Vagabond... A Glow-worme. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 152 The world is full of such glow-wormes, that make some show of Spriritual Light from God. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. ΚΠ 1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 47 How Glowworme-like the Sun doth now appeare. 1623 B. Jonson Time Vindicated 166 He works by glow-worme light, the Moone's too open. 1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 341/1 Though I know my selfe vnworthy farre, With my poore Glow-worme Muse, t'attend this starre. a1649 W. Drummond Poems (1656) 174 How oft have we..Contemn'd Earths glow-worme Greatnesse. 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 163 He..rais'd it [sc. his engine] till it level'd right, Against the Glow-worm Tayl of Kite. 1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada ii. ii. iii. 99 For, Glow-worm-like, you shine, and do not see. 1686 A. Horneck Crucified Jesus iv. 60 Meer glowworm light, that shines, but warms not. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1320
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