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Meaning of MUCKWORM

 
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Muck"worm`\, n.
1. (Zo["o]l.) A larva or grub that lives in muck or manure;
   -- applied to the larv[ae] of the tumbledung and allied
   beetles.

2. One who scrapes together money by mean labor and devices;
   a miser. ``Misers are muckworms.'' --Pope.

 

 

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