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7 letters · 12 points in Scrabble
Meaning
originFrom ear + worm; senses 1 and 3 (“tune that keeps replaying in one’s head”; “earwig”) are a calque of German Ohrwurm (“tune that pops up in one’s memory all the time; earwig”) (from the idea of a creature burrowing into the ear, an erroneous belief where earwigs are concerned), while sense 2 (“moth larva”) refers to the fact that these pests infest, among other things, ears of maize or sweet corn.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0
Words from these letters
- marrow 11
- rewarm 11
- warmer 11
- womera 11
- wormer 11
- mower 10
- mawr 9
- meow 9
- mowa 9
- wame 9
- warm 9
- worm 9