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wormling

wormling noun: a small or young worm.

Noun

wormling (plural wormlings)

  1. A small or young worm.
    • O dusty wormling! dar'st thou strive and stand / With Heav'ns high Monarch?1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson...
  2. (broadly) Any weak, mean, or lowly creature.
    • But I am a wormling, and not a man; the scorn of men, and derision of the people.1797, Alexander Geddes, A New Translation of the Book of Psalms, published 1807

Forms of wormling

pluralwormlings

Origin of wormling

From worm + -ling. Compare Icelandic yrmlingur (“wormling”).

Questions about wormling

What does wormling mean?
Wormling means a small or young worm.
What part of speech is wormling?
Wormling is a noun.
What is the plural of wormling?
The plural of wormling is wormlings.

Words near wormling in the dictionary

  1. wormlets
  2. Wormley
  3. Wormleys
  4. wormlike
  5. wormlike chain
  6. wormling
  7. wormlings
  8. wormlion
  9. wormlions
  10. wormly
  11. wormpick

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