- Northern-England, obsoleteA caterpillar.
“Of course, I need scarcely say that the existence of dealers who purvey to the wants of aspiring naturalists, was entirely unknown to me ; and even if I had known, the probability is that my parents w”
“I can use some of the children to pick off gooseberry "oobits", and do good in two ways, and if the boys learn to fight wasp nests, they will have got a good way towards fighting Boers. But then comes”
“I wonder whether this could be a fact; hairy oobits do sting, rather like nettles, if angered. As a child I collected thirty-five once in my hands and they fought, leaving my hands, their battlefield,”
Formsoobits(plural) · oubit(alternative) · woobut(alternative) · woubit(alternative)