Wicga

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - wicga

According to the Old English Dictionary:

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wicga
m. Some kind of insect :-- Wicga blatta (elsewhere blatta is glossed by nihlbuttorfleóge, and eárwicga), lucifuga, lytel wicga bruuinus, Wrt. Voc. ii. 127, 11, 32. Genim hwǽtenes meluwes smedman and wicggan innelfe, gníd tósomme, Lchdm. ii. 134, 4.

Related words: eár-wicga. wicga

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