MUCKWORM

n.

2 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A larva or grub that lives in muck or manure; -- applied to the larvæ of the tumbledung and allied beetles.

2.
n.

One who scrapes together money by mean labor and devices; a miser. "Misers are muckworms." Pope.


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