battle-twig

== English == === Noun === battle-twig (plural battle-twigs) (UK, dialect) An earwig 1929 D. H. Lawrence, Up He Goes! (from Pansies) in The Complete Poems, page 553 [1] There isn't a damn thing in 'em, They're as empty as empty tins; they haven't the spunk of a battle-twig, an' all they can think of is sins.