Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word pillbugs.

Examples

  • It is very closely related to the small pillbugs that you can find in the garden.

    10 Horrible Deep See Creatures | Impact Lab 2007

  • Coloration may also vary between sexes, male adult pillbugs are usually plain dark-grey with less dots, females' color is lighter grey with numerous yellow dots.

    Is it a boy or a girl? AYDIN 2008

  • But if you're a writer, you get a little fascinated by them, in that peering under a rock to see how merrily the pillbugs' legs doth wiggle sort of way.

    Cat Rambo catrambo 2008

  • But before you send money or sign a petition to save zoo-dwelling pillbugs, prairie dogs, or pachyderms, I implore you to visit your local zoo, speak to the biologists, veterinarians, researchers and keepers who care for them.

    Brenda Scott Royce: Zoo Is Not a Dirty Word 2008

  • I froze under the covers, realizing that perhaps just a foot away was two hundred pounds of interlocked black chitin, with tiny wriggling hairs poking out, waiting for me to drift off so it could saw my neck open and feast on the spurting blood, as all pillbugs do.

    The Down Side To A Big Imagination 2004

  • They eat delicious crickets and pillbugs, and sometimes scorpions.

    Boing Boing: April 4, 2004 - April 10, 2004 Archives 2004

  • With all the rain we've been getting, the master bath was infested with pillbugs/sowbugs/roly-polys.

    upstairs/downstairs Holly 2004

  • With all the rain we've been getting, the master bath was infested with pillbugs/sowbugs/roly-polys.

    Archive 2004-07-01 Holly 2004

  • (Liberalism is a Socialist Disease) or pillbugs that you find in your garden. .if I find that in my garden I call in an air strike

    Latest Articles MSNBC.com 2010

  • (Liberalism is a Socialist Disease) or pillbugs that you find in your garden. .if I find that in my garden I call in an air strike

    Latest Articles MSNBC.com 2010

  • When I was young, I used to turn over rocks to find woodlice. Some people call them pillbugs—though my favorite name is rolly pollies.

    Motherhood, Metamorphosis | Rachel Mans McKenny rachelmansmckenny 2022

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.