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my copy...
Posted by
Tyrone Slothrop on 2023-May-15 13:20:33 EDT, Monday
...of DeFrancis' ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary says that in modern Mandarin dìlóng simply means "earthworm"; what's so horrible about that? (and there is a simplified glyph for lóng instead of that 16-stroke graphical monster).