イモムシ

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Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of イモムシ – see the following entry.
芋虫いもむし
a hairless caterpillar
(figurative) an angry person (from the way that a person may puff up when angry and go red and swollen in the face, similar to the defense behaviors of some caterpillars)
(figurative, derogatory) a dummy; a term used to ridicule a person
a children's song and game, played by everyone squatting and holding onto the waist or shoulders of the person in front, and the whole group trying to move like a caterpillar
a kind of traditional toy made to look and move like a caterpillar
(This term, イモムシ (imomushi), is the katakana spelling of the above term.)