skin worm
English
Etymology
skin + worm, in later use partly after German Hautwurm.
Noun
skin worm (plural skin worms)
- A small worm or other parasite which infects the skin.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
- Alike desires perturbe both a skinne-worme [transl. ciron], and an Elephant.
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Anagrams
- wormskin