单词 | worm month |
释义 | > as lemmasworm month worm month n. Scottish and Irish English (northern) July (or the second half of July and first half of August); cf. Danish ormemaaned. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > specific months > [noun] > July AfterlitheOE Julyc1300 quintile1606 Mead-month1681 worm month1782 1782 J. Ramsay in Allardyce Scot. & Scotsmen 18th Cent. (1888) II. 256 It looked like February than the worm month. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Worm-month..the month of July, Perths…from the hatching of many kinds of reptiles in this month. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down Worm month,..a fortnight before and a fortnight after Lammas. < as lemmas |
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