And they call it "Tom Swiftie" because... one for the MOMH

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--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Pigwidgeon" <simon at h...> wrote:
> 
> From the OED
> 
> Defn: A maggot, the larva of the flesh-fly or bluebottle, employed 
as 
> bait by anglers. (Cf. A. 5.) 
> 
> Quotes:
> 1578 LYTE Dodoens VI. lxviii. 746 A white worme lyke a gentill. 
> 1594 PLAT Jewell-ho. III. 12 White and glib worms, which the 
anglers 
> call Gentils. 
> 1688 R. HOLME Armoury II. 193/1 The Cloudy, or Blackish 
Fly..proceed 
> from Maggots, or Gentills, that breed of Putrified Flesh. 
> 1741 Compl. Fam.-Piece II. ii. 336 Gentles are a very good Bait. 
> 1851 D. JERROLD St. Giles xxiv. 251 As alive and wriggling as an 
> angler's box of gentles. 
> 1894 Blackw. Mag. Sept. 426/2 A gentle is placed on the hook.
> 
> A.5. (also from defn of gentle): Not harsh or irritating to the 
> touch; soft, tender; yielding to pressure, pliant, supple. Obs.
> 
 
Just what I was about say ;)

Wotan