English Dictionary

earworm

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɪəwɜːm/

名詞

略語 別表記 古語

A tune that keeps replaying in one's head or that one keeps thinking about, especially if unwanted.

日本語の意味

頭の中で自動的に繰り返し流れる、または思い出され続ける曲。 / 意図せずに頭から離れず、何度も再生される曲のフレーズ。

That catchy chorus became an earworm, and I found myself humming it all day.

あの耳に残るサビは頭から離れない曲になり、一日中口ずさんでしまった。

意味（1）

A tune that keeps replaying in one's head or that one keeps thinking about, especially if unwanted.

The chorus [of Meeting in the Ladies Room by Klymaxx] spawned an earworm so potent that women still mutter it as they exit for a bathroom break twenty years later.

意味（2）

(originally US) Short for corn earworm (“larva of the moths Helicoverpa zea (syn. Heliothis zea) and Helicoverpa armigera, which are agricultural pests”).

I had planned in mind to tell you … how I protected, that is, guaranteed, Evergreen sweet corn against the bud worm and the ear worm; …

意味（3）

(archaic) An earwig (“insect of the order Dermaptera”).

Earwig, … The ear-worm or grub, a well-known insect, with large transparent wings, which eats fruit and flower-leaves, and has been erroneously supposed to creep into the human brain through the ear; …

earworms （ plural ）