Are your worms biting?

@JudyEv (323673)
Rockingham, Australia
June 16, 2022 8:23pm CST
MyLotter Eva James (@wolfgirl569 ) had to have a fasting test and mentioned how hungry she is. I asked if the worms were biting and wondered if that is another term that might have gone out of fashion. It means you are hungry and your tummy is making rumbling noises and waiting for some food to get to it. I guess in the olden days people had worms too which would make them inclined to eat more. My friend has a worm farm and sometimes I ask her how her worms are. It always makes us laugh. Other old terms that come to mind are having butterflies in your stomach when you are nervous and butterfly kisses. You give butterfly kisses when you put your face close to another’s (usually a child’s) and flutter your eyelashes against their cheek. So how many of these terms have you heard? The photo was taken by me of something that washed up on the beach at Cliff Head in Western Australia. I think it’s the casings of some sort of sea worms.
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@wolfgirl569 (93556)
• Marion, Ohio
17 Jun 22
Not sure I would want to see those worms. I hadnt heard the first one but know the butterfly ones
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@JudyEv (323673)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jun 22
I can remember giving the boys something for worms. The doctor said we should dose ourselves. When I said I didn't think Vince would do it, the doctor said 'put it in his gravy and he'll never know'.
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@wolfgirl569 (93556)
• Marion, Ohio
17 Jun 22
@JudyEv My sister was the only one that ever got any. She couldnt be around the pigs when dad had them. She would get a certain type of worm from them.
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@JudyEv (323673)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jun 22
@wolfgirl569 Oh wow. That seems strange.
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@DaddyEvil (137251)
• United States
17 Jun 22
I've never heard of worms biting but butterfly kisses I've heard of as well as butterflies in the tummy when we're nervous.
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@DaddyEvil (137251)
• United States
17 Jun 22
@JudyEv Yes, we do. Dad and mom used a lot of old fashioned sayings... Most of them I can't repeat on myLot.
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@JudyEv (323673)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jun 22
We have some strange sayings, don't we?
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@JudyEv (323673)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jun 22
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@GardenGerty (157050)
• United States
17 Jun 22
I had not heard of the worms biting one. I can see it maybe came to be when people did commonly have worms.
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@JudyEv (323673)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jun 22
And children often had worms too, didn't they?
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@Shavkat (136865)
• Philippines
17 Jun 22
I think I can eat like a horse at this very moment. I need to cook something.
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@Shavkat (136865)
• Philippines
17 Jun 22
@JudyEv Yes, they are the apples in my eye.
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@JudyEv (323673)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jun 22
Eat like a horse, drink like a fish - what a lot of funny terms we have.
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@JudyEv (323673)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jun 22
@Shavkat That's another one.
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@simplfred (20614)
• Philippines
17 Jun 22
I know the butterfly thing but the worm biting... We just say the the worm in your smomach is hungry, straight to the point...
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@JudyEv (323673)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jun 22
It's very similar, isn't it?
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@simplfred (20614)
• Philippines
17 Jun 22
@JudyEv Yeah... I can see it's similarity indeed...
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@Beestring (13063)
• Hong Kong
17 Jun 22
I've only heard of butterflies in the stomach.
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@JudyEv (323673)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jun 22
Yes, it seems most people have heard of those.
@snowy22315 (168431)
• United States
17 Jun 22
Butterfly kisses are pretty common in terminology here worms biting is a new one.
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@JudyEv (323673)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 Jun 22
Very few have heard the worm one.
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@RebeccasFarm (84402)
• Wheat Ridge, Colorado
17 Jun 22
Wow never seen anything like that Judy..excellent catch
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• Wheat Ridge, Colorado
18 Jun 22
@JudyEv I did love scouring the beach
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@JudyEv (323673)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 Jun 22
There are all sorts of things that wash up from time to time on the beach.
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@LadyDuck (454979)
• Switzerland
17 Jun 22
The only one I never heard is the one about worms. But we said "the bites of hunger".
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@LadyDuck (454979)
• Switzerland
17 Jun 22
@JudyEv I never heard this one.
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@JudyEv (323673)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jun 22
The biting worms doesn't seem to be well known in America either.
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@Fleura (28941)
• United Kingdom
17 Jun 22
Never heard the worm one. But yes people had worms and of course they also used to swallow tapeworm eggs on purpose to stay slim! Butterfly kisses my mother used to give me, and I give my children!
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@Fleura (28941)
• United Kingdom
18 Jun 22
It's one of those stories that may be more myth than reality, although I know my Mum talked about it, and there are old adverts still around. I was looking for evidence online to back up my claim and I was rather shocked to find that in fact this idea is still a 'thing'! (see lower link). @JudyEv https://www.today.com/health/iowa-woman-tries-tapeworm-diet-prompts-doctor-warning-6C10935746
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-horrifying-legacy-of-the-victorian-tapeworm-diet
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@JudyEv (323673)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 Jun 22
@Fleura I'm convinced some people have absolutely no sense whatsoever. I do know they used maggots to clean soldiers' wounds when there was nothing else available.
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@JudyEv (323673)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jun 22
Really??? Swallow tapeworm eggs? I have never heard of that. Actually, that was a new thing I probably didn't need to learn today!
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@kobesbuddy (73903)
• East Tawas, Michigan
17 Jun 22
My daughter and I used to share butterfly kisses, with our eyelashes! lol I had worms as a child, was skin and bones. They treated me and I got healthy again.
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@JudyEv (323673)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 Jun 22
I dosed my children for worms once or twice too. It was pretty standard in those days.
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@kobesbuddy (73903)
• East Tawas, Michigan
18 Jun 22
@JudyEv I believe they were called pin-worms, very common in children.
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@Ronrybs (17795)
• London, England
17 Jun 22
The only one of yours I knew was butterflies in your stomach.
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@JudyEv (323673)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jun 22
That's interesting. Maybe the others are really old. Not many of our US friends recognised the worms are biting.
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• United States
17 Jun 22
I've never heard of worms biting but the other two I've experienced. One is sweet and one overwhelming.
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@JudyEv (323673)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jun 22
It seems there are quite a few who haven't heard of worms biting.
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@JimBo452020 (42639)
• United Kingdom
17 Jun 22
Constantly!!
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@JudyEv (323673)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jun 22
@JimBo452020 And now you have gout, poor man.
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@JudyEv (323673)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jun 22
Thankfully I'm rarely hungry or I'd be like the side of a house.
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@JimBo452020 (42639)
• United Kingdom
17 Jun 22
@JudyEv I am a mansion lol
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@BarBaraPrz (45226)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
17 Jun 22
Never heard the biting worms one but know the butterfly ones.
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@JudyEv (323673)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jun 22
That seems to be the way for most people.
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@LindaOHio (153180)
• United States
17 Jun 22
I've never heard if the worms are biting! That's a new one on me. Have a great day.
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@JudyEv (323673)
• Rockingham, Australia
17 Jun 22
It's been a good day, thanks. We're just about on our way to bed.
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@CarolDM (203478)
• Nashville, Tennessee
17 Jun 22
I have heard of all of these except for the dreaded worms.
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@JudyEv (323673)
• Rockingham, Australia
18 Jun 22
Maybe it was just an Australian phrase or so old it's been forgotten.
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