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wormlings

wormlings is the plural of wormling.

Meaning of wormling

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

Questions about wormlings

What is wormlings the plural of?
Wormlings is the plural of wormling.

Words near wormlings in the dictionary

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

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