slowworm

slowworm

English

Alternative forms

• slow worm, slow-worm

Etymology

From Middle English sloworm (possibly influenced by slow), from Old English slāwyrm. Possibly related to Swedish slå (“earthworm”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsləʊwɜː(ɹ)m/

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Noun

slowworm (plural slowworms)

1. A small Old World lizard, Anguis fragilis, often mistaken for a snake, having no legs and small eyes.

Synonyms

• blindworm

Translations

Anguis fragilis

Bulgarian: слепок m (slepok) Catalan: vidriol m Czech: slepýš (cs) m Dutch: hazelworm (nl) m Esperanto: angviso Finnish: vaskitsa (fi) French: orvet (fr) m Galician: escáncer m, liscanzo m German: Blindschleiche (de) f, Haselwurm m, Hartwurm m Hungarian: lábatlan gyík Irish: earcán m, earcán caoch m

Italian: orbettino (it) m Norwegian: Bokmål: stålorm m Nynorsk: stålorm m Polish: padalec (pl) m Portuguese: licranço m, cobra de vidro f Romanian: năpârcă (ro) f Russian: верете́ница (ru) f (vereténica) Spanish: lución m Volapük: rovät (vo) Walloon: dizi (wa) m, colevrot (wa) m, scourlot (wa) m

References

• 2008, Anatoly Liberman, An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction, pages 196-200