Common names for woodlice vary throughout the English-speaking world. A number of common names make reference to the fact that some species of woodlice can roll up into a ball. Other names compare the woodlouse to a pig.
Common names include:
- armadillo bug
- billy baker (South Somerset)
- billy button (Dorset)
- boat-builder (Newfoundland, Canada)
- butcher boy or butchy boy (Australia, mostly around Melbourne)
- carpenter or cafner (Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada)
- carpet shrimp (Ryedale)
- charlie pig (Norfolk, England)
- cheeselog (Reading, England)
- cheesey wig
- cheesy bobs (Guildford, England)
- cheesy bug (North West Kent, Gravesend, England)
- cheesy lou (Suffolk)
- cheesy papa (Essex)
- chiggy pig (Devon, England)
- chisel pig
- chucky pig (Devon, Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, England)
- chuggy pig
- crawley baker (Dorset)
- daddy grampher (North Somerset)
- damp beetle (North East England)
- doodlebug (also used for the larva of an antlion)
- fat pigs (Cork, Ireland),
- gramersow (Cornwall, England)
- granny grey (Wales)
- granny grunter (Isle of Man)
- grumper-pig (Bermuda)
- hardback (Humberside, England)
- hobbling Andrew (Oxfordshire, England)
- hobby horse (Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, England)
- hog-louse
- horton bug (Deal, Kent, England)
- humidity bug (Ontario, Canada)
- jomits (Cloneganna)
- menace (Plymouth, Devon)
- mochyn coed (tree pig), pryf lludw (ash bug), granny grey in Wales
- monkey-peas (Kent, England)
- pea bug (Medway, England)
- peasie-bug (Kent, England)
- pennysow (Pembrokeshire, Wales)
- piggy wig
- pill bug (usually applied only to the genus Armadillidium)
- potato bug
- roll up bug
- roly-poly
- saw bug (Dingwall, Nova Scotia)
- slater (Scotland, Ulster, New Zealand and Australia)
- sour bug (Cambridgeshire)
- sow bug
- water bug
- wood bug (British Columbia, Canada)
- wood-louse
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