Definition of Slowworms

1. Noun. (plural of slowworm) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Slowworms

1. slowworm [n] - See also: slowworm

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slowworms

slowly but surely
slowmatch
slowmatches
slowness
slownesses
slowpitch
slowplay
slowplayed
slowplaying
slowplays
slowpoke
slowpokes
slows
slowth
slowworm
slowworms (current term)
sloyd
sloyds
slub
slubb
slubbed
slubber
slubberdegullion
slubberdegullions
slubbered
slubbering
slubberingly
slubbers
slubbier
slubbiest

Literary usage of Slowworms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Madam How and Lady Why; Or by Charles Kingsley (1885)
"But are not poor people often very silly about animals and plants ? The boys at the village school say that slowworms are poisonous; is not that silly? ..."

2. Stepping Stones to Literature by Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert (1897)
"The boys at the village school say that slowworms are poisonous; ... They know that adders bite, and so they think that slowworms bite too. ..."

3. Flood, Field and Forest by George Rooper (1869)
"Snakes, slowworms. and adders were very numerous, and we captured them with as ... slowworms we generally killed; why, I cannot say, except that the fact ..."

4. A Fifth Reader by Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert (1910)
"The boys at the village school say that slowworms are poisonous; ... They know that adders bite, and so they think that slowworms bite too. ..."

5. A Fifth Reader by Sarah Louise Arnold, Charles Benajah Gilbert, California State Text-book Committee, California State Board of Education (1914)
"The boys at the village school say that slowworms are poisonous; ... They know that adders bite, and so they think that slowworms bite too. ..."

6. Man and nature; or, Physical geography as modified by human action by George Perkins Marsh (1864)
"... I watched their proceedings, and found every day lying near the tower numbers of dead or dying slowworms, and, in a few cases, small lizards, which had, ..."

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