Crossword-Solution: EARWIG
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Earwig | n. | Any insect of the genus Forticula and related genera, belonging to the order Euplexoptera. |
| Earwig | n. | In America, any small chilopodous myriapod, esp. of the genus Geophilus. |
| Earwig | n. | A whisperer of insinuations; a secret counselor. |
| Earwig | v. t. | To influence, or attempt to influence, by whispered insinuations or private talk. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RTEEA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EARWIG (5)
Some are office- seekers, and earwig king and consul, and compass the fall of officials, with an eye to salary.
UMQUILE THE MASTER OF LOVAT There was a man waiting us in Prestongrange’s study, whom I distasted at the first look, as we distaste a ferret or an earwig.
Doll never flies to cut her lace, Or throw cold water in her face, Because she heard a sudden drum, Or found an earwig in a plum.
But the railroad car—every man has his weak point; and I fear the railroad car as abjectly as I do an earwig, and, on the whole, on better grounds.
Imagination perpetually peers and creeps further down the avenues and vistas in the tubes of science, and one fancies every frantic reversal of proportions; the earwig striding across the echoing plain like an elephant, or the grasshopper coming roaring above our roofs like a vast aeroplane, as he leaps from Hertfordshire to Surrey.
Quotes with EARWIG (1)
Felicity was horrible and snide, but then Felicity had been a repulsive earwig ever since she first grew a vocabulary.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 48 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).