slowworm
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 16
- Words With Friends
- 18
- Letters
- 8
Definition of slowworm
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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A small Old World lizard, Anguis fragilis, often mistaken for a snake, having no legs and small eyes.
“Well, sir, it may be we shall have some better orations of it anon: well, Ile watch you as narrowly as ever you were watcht, and Ile play with you as the nightingale with the slowworme;[…]”
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Etymology
From Middle English sloworm (possibly influenced by slow), from Old English slāwyrm (“slow-worm, blindworm”), from *slā, related to Norwegian slo (“slow-worm”), Swedish slå (“slow-worm”) + wyrm (“worm, snake”). Compare Swedish ormslå.
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