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tag worm

tag worm is the alternative form of tagworm.

Meaning of tagworm

Noun

tagworm (plural tagworms)

  1. (historical) A specific type of maggot or grub used as natural bait for catching fish, particularly trout.
    • The Little Gilt Tail or Tag Worm is of a pale yellow towards the tail, and shorter than the dunghill red worm, but knotted like it. He is commonly found among old horse dung…1766, Unattributed, “The Art of Angling”, in The Universal Angler, Or, That Art Improved in All Its Parts, Especially in Fly-fishing Describing the Several Sorts of Fresh-water Fish, with Their...

Forms of tag worm

pluraltag worms

Questions about tag worm

What is tag worm the alternative form of?
Tag worm is the alternative form of tagworm.

Words near tag worm in the dictionary

  1. tag team
  2. tag teamed
  3. tag teaming
  4. tag teams
  5. tag up
  6. tag worm
  7. tag wrestling
  8. tag, rag and bobtail
  9. Tag-abaca
  10. tag-along right
  11. tag-along rights

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tag worm (page history and authors); tagworm (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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