Meaning of battle-twig | Babel Free

Definitions

An earwig

UK, dialectal

Examples

“An' the wool of a thistle a-flyin' an' seeädin' tha haäted to see; 'Twur as bad as a battle-twig 'ere i' my oän blue chaumber to me.”

“1929 D. H. Lawrence, Up He Goes! (from Pansies) in The Complete Poems, page 553 https://books.google.com/books?id=dHB_YjKlyIgC&lpg=PA66&dq=%22battle-twig%22&pg=PA66#v=onepage&q=%22battle-twig%22&f=false There isn't a damn thing in 'em, They're as empty as empty tins; they haven't the spunk of a battle-twig, an' all they can think of is sins.”

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