skin worm

From skin +‎ worm, in later use partly after German Hautwurm.

skin worm (plural skin worms)

1. A small worm or other parasite which infects the skin.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 12, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:

     Alike desires perturbe both a skinne-worme [translating ciron], and an Elephant.

• wormskin