German is not quite correct. We say "Kellerassel".
Keller -> Cellar
Assel -> Isopod
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In English isopods qualify as bugs
Roly polys or get the fk out! /s
Bed pisser is just mean.
Did the Dutch confuse them for dandelions?
There is some etymological debate on the subject. Some sources say they were ground to a paste and administered for diuretic effect, the same as the flower.
However it's not a common bit of knowledge or myth, so some etymologists say that the weird has formed in Dutch separately to French.
I know some fancy restaurants have served them as miniature backyard shrimp.
Does the pissebed eat pissenlits?
I love these Lil dudes. I have some in the basement and I feel bad to see them scurry around to find darkness whenever a light is turned on. They are my spirit animal.
They were Potato Bugs or Ball Bugs for me as a kid, until I heard Roly-poly from a kid at summer camp.
Tf is "global" supposed to mean?
The official common name for the insect, Armadillidium vulgare, in the scientific community. All the rest are colloquial names.
"Cheesy bug" in parts of the UK? Where I grew up that's close. They were "Cheesybobs" to everyone I knew.
As a Canadian : woodbug
I'm in one of the "certain regions" for carpenter.
I've lived in a few places around the UK and I have never, ever heard of a "cheesy bug".
I always knew them as cheesybobs as a kid, and only realised they were the same thing as "wood louse" or whatever when I grew up.