earwig• When I was nine I tried, unsuccessfully, to stop some boysdrowning an earwig.• Probably scream if an earwigcrawled into the sleeping-bag - and that was the other thing.• There were no earwigs in the Scarinish Hotelbedroom, just two flies and a moth.• The next day when the pinecones were collected up they were full of earwigs.• Gardener's TipsEarwigTraps Quite by accident we have found a good way to trapping earwigs.• One sufferer nearly died after gulping two earwigs. 16.
Originearwig
Old Englishearwicga“ear-insect”; because it used to be believed that these insects get into people's ears