10 LIBROS DEL INGLÉS RELACIONADOS CON «ANGLETWITCH»
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angletwitch en la siguiente selección bibliográfica. Libros relacionados con
angletwitch y pequeños extractos de los mismos para contextualizar su uso en la literatura.
Afeard; agg 5 angletwitch (used in East Cornwall for the earth-worm, in
Devonshire for the blind-worm or slow-worm),arrish W, errish E (arish D); athirt ,'
anist ,- anker; appledrane ,ar . Bal (to bawl); ballywrag E, balarag W (ballyrag or
bullyrag ...
Royal Institution of Cornwall, 1870
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The History of Polperro: A Fishing Town on the South Coast ...
Angletwitch. The earthworm. ? N. The worm is a common bait for trout. Had this
name connexion with angling ?— "Tay wormes which the Cornish English terme
angle-touches." — Carew. " Your bayte shall be a grete angyll toitch or a menow.
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Journal of the Royal Institution of Cornwall
Afeard ; agg ; angletwitch (used in East Cornwall for the earth-worm, in
Devonshire for the blind-worm or slow-worm) ; arrish W, errish E (arish D); athirt ;
anist 3 anker; appledrane ; arg. Bal (to bawl); ballywrag E, balarag W (ballyrag or
bullyrag ...
Royal Institution of Cornwall, 1870
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An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language
AS. angeltwicce,prov. E.angletwitch, an earthworm(for fishing). See Tweak. Der.
twitch, sb.; twitcher. TWITTER, to chirpasa bird, to feel a slight trembling of the
nerves. (E.). ME. twiteren; whence 'þilke brid .. twitereth' = that bird twitters,
Chaucer, ...
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Transactions of the Philological Society
... in angling is called an angletwitch-—and we find this word still further
corrupted in the synonymes angle-touch, anggwyl-twachys (O. Eng.). The dew-
worm is known by the diminutive twachet. With this form we may eompare the
word twigle, ...
Philological Society (London), 1858
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Jim and Nell: a dramatic poem in the dialect of North Devon. ...
rels. A-nan (see Nan), say it again. A-gin, or Agen, act. against, near Aneest,
anear, near (close ato. neest, next to). Angletwitch, s. an earthworm, baitworm.
Ago, gone, past, ex. “ jist ago," nearly dead. Crickett, s. a three-legged stool, a low
stool ...
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A budget of Cornish poems, by various authors
Then the Cabs as they caalls 'em, keeps pooten about, Like an Angletwitch
twisten etself en and out. And they 'Busses of which then, plase sure, there's a
mort, *> Skeyse about like the bilers of ingines en sport. Well cheel, as for the
shops I ...
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Catacombs of the Damned: Those Who Would Steal Living Bodies ...
... him in 'We the back' suggested Reg.I was completely ata lossfor the whole
conversation as Farmer Salter squeezed inthe backwiththe children. 'Oi dunno
wher' yume gwain to sit to,but squaize in there someplace. Theebe roight
angletwitch.
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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words
But weesel is, along with pannage and choronym, angletwitch and empasm and
elaqueate and dragoman and some hundreds more—some of them weird, all of
them wonderful, and English, every one. Read them, savor them—and once in a
...
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The Laird's Luck and Other Fireside Tales
Tho' troubles assail an' dangers ' — Stiddy there, you old angletwitch ! — She's a
bit too fond o' smelling the wind, that's all." As a matter of fact she'd taken more
water than Jacka cared to think about, now that the danger was over. " But what ...
A. T. Quiller-Couch, 2007
