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Muckworm   Listen
noun
Muckworm  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A larva or grub that lives in muck or manure; applied to the larvae of the tumbledung and allied beetles.
2.
One who scrapes together money by mean labor and devices; a miser. "Misers are muckworms."





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"Muckworm" Quotes from Famous Books



... the Star Chamber upon a charge of libel. The sentence was a foregone conclusion, and was so outrageous that its result could only be the strengthening of opposition. The "muckworm" Cottington, as Browning calls him, suggested the sentence which was carried out. The men were condemned to lose their ears, to pay a fine of L5000 each, and to be imprisoned for the remainder of their lives in the castles of Carnarvon, Launceston, ...
— Browning's England - A Study in English Influences in Browning • Helen Archibald Clarke


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