earwiggy

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adjective

Infested with earwigs.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectiveearwiggy (comparative more earwiggy, superlative most earwiggy)

comparative more earwiggy · superlative most earwiggy

  1. Infested with earwigs.

    So while an earwig can indeed crawl into a person's ear, it seems that a place has to be pretty darn earwiggy for such a thing to happen by chance.

    1989, Jan Harold Brunvand, Curses! Broiled Again!
    2 more examples

    Amy had a bower in hers, rather small and earwiggy, but very pretty to look at, with honeysuckle and morning-glories hanging their colored horns and bells...

    1868, Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

    The lady is whisked off as unceremoniously as though she were a Sabino damsel; she is transported to a dusty and, I fear, an earwiggy conservatory, […]

    1905, Harper's Magazine

Origin

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