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muckworms

muckworms is the plural of muckworm.

Meaning of muckworm

Noun

muckworm (plural muckworms)

  1. A larva living in mud or manure.
  2. Someone who gathers wealth through overwork of employees and sordid means; a miser.
    • Here you a muckworm of the town might see, / At his dull desk, amid his legers stall'd, / Eat up with carking care and penurie; / Most like to carcase parch'd on gallows-tree.1748, James Thomson, “Canto I”, in The Castle of Indolence

Questions about muckworms

What is muckworms the plural of?
Muckworms is the plural of muckworm.

Words near muckworms in the dictionary

  1. muckspreading
  2. mucksweat
  3. mucksweats
  4. mucksy
  5. muckworm
  6. muckworms
  7. mucky
  8. mucky muck
  9. mucky mucks
  10. mucky pup
  11. mucky pups

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