Groundworm

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    earthworm dated, dialectal

    "They are scheming and talking, as if they belonged, like a toad or a ground-worm, to the acre on which they were born:"

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earthworm

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"They are scheming and talking, as if they belonged, like a toad or a ground-worm, to the acre on which they were born:"

Etymology

ground + worm

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