a. Infested by earwigs. b. Resembling an earwig. Hence Earwigginess.
1870. Miss Broughton, Red as Rose, I. 82. A seat … ‘I don’t fancy it … it looks earwiggy.’
1865. Masson, Rec. Brit. Philos., iv. 388. There was an inherent dogginess or earwigginess in the given kind of associable feelings.
