tagworm
tagworm noun: a specific type of maggot or grub used as natural bait for catching fish, particularly trout.
Noun
tagworm (plural tagworms)
- 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...
- The lug is a worm resembling the tagworm or angletouch, and lying in the ooze somewhat deep from whence the women dig them up and sell them to the fishermen [...]1953, F.E. Halliday, Richard Carew of Antony, The Survey of Cornwall, page 119
Forms of tagworm
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Origin of tagworm
According to The Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest evidence for tag-worm is from 1602, in the writing of Richard Carew, antiquary and poet.
Questions about tagworm
- What does tagworm mean?
- Tagworm means a specific type of maggot or grub used as natural bait for catching fish, particularly trout.
- What part of speech is tagworm?
- Tagworm is a noun.
- What is the plural of tagworm?
- The plural of tagworm is tagworms.
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