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wormfood

wormfood is the alternative form of worm food.

Meaning of worm food

Noun

worm food (uncountable)

  1. (idiomatic, often darkly humorous) One or more corpses, especially in a state of decay; remains.
    • "Say, have ye a drug that will make worm's food of your enemy in an hour?"1830, J. Y. A. "The Powder Plot," The Olio Vol. 4, p. 246 (Google preview)
    Synonyms:
    dog meat, corpse, dead

Questions about wormfood

What is wormfood the alternative form of?
Wormfood is the alternative form of worm food.

Words near wormfood in the dictionary

  1. wormers
  2. wormery
  3. wormes
  4. wormfish
  5. wormfishes
  6. wormfood
  7. wormfowl
  8. wormfowls
  9. wormgear
  10. wormgears
  11. wormgrass

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