Scearn-wifel

Nach dem Altenglischen Wörterbuch:

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scearn-wifel

m. A dung-beetle:--Scearnwifel (-fifel, MS.) scarabeus, Wrt. Voc. i. 23, 69. [Halliwell gives sharn-bug, a cockchafer, as a Sussex word. Cf. Ssarnboddes (beetles) þet louieþ þet dong, Ayenb. 61, 32. Icel. tord-yfill a beetle.] scearn-wifel