Cheslip

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A woodlouse. UK, dialectal

    "Mouffet states that “the Asiatic Greeks called them χγαμος from their likenesse^([sic]) to a bean (Galen), for it looks like it when the Cheslip rolls itself up into a round body.”"

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woodlouse

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"Mouffet states that “the Asiatic Greeks called them χγαμος from their likenesse^([sic]) to a bean (Galen), for it looks like it when the Cheslip rolls itself up into a round body.”"

Etymology

Unknown, perhaps alteration of an earlier term influenced by cheeselip.

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