Always took you for an ignorant twat, MM......[emoji38][emoji6] https://www.dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/clipshear Scottish National Dictionary (1700–) Hide Quotations Hide Etymology Cite this entry CLIPSHEAR, CLIPSHEER, n. An earwig (Fif.10, Lnl.1, Lnk.3 1937). [′klɪpʃir] Fif. 1864 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin xxx .: “Ou, it's maybe no a flech ava,” quoth I, turnin' roond to compose mysel' to sleep again, “it's maybe a clipsheer.” Edb. 1928 A. D. Mackie Poems in Two Tongues 27: And for a' the worms and the clipshears raikin' aboot They've peace o' their banes. [so called from the appearance of its forceps-like appendages.]