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(n) a sow bug, a harmless terrestrial isopod commonly found under rocks and in soil. Also called a roly poly. So called because the critter rolls up into a tight little pill when you poke it.
by Heptune May 17, 2005
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Get the nipper mug.(n) a deerfly, a huge biting fly with striped wings that lives in northern Canada. Newfoundland slang.
I hit the stout with a hammer and thought I had killed it, but it just shook itself off and flew away.
by Heptune May 17, 2005
Get the stout mug.(n) A botfly larva. The parent fly lays its eggs in a person or animal, and the larva grows into a huge maggot that migrates to the neck and chews its way out when it is ready to pupate. Also spelled warble, wormil.
The rabbit was dead, but we could see that its neck was moving as if it had an alien under its skin, and the next thing we knew, a giant worble the size of a shotgun shell crawled out of it. And we figured that rabbit was better off dead.
by Heptune May 17, 2005
Get the worble mug.(n) blackflies, a kind of small biting fly or gnat. The word has the same Native American root as the name of the town Punxsutawney, PA.
If you are surrounded by a cloud of punkies, go into a car or tent, and they will all land on the walls. Then you can squish them easily.
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Get the boneless ham mug.(n) The foul-smelling fruit of the ginko tree, which, because it contains butyric acid, smells like rotten butter or puke.
The puke berry comes only from female ginko trees and looks like a small apricot and has a large, round pit.
by Heptune May 18, 2005
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