Muckworm

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A larva living in mud or manure.
  2. 2
    Someone who gathers wealth through overwork of employees and sordid means; a miser.

    "Here you a muckworm of the town might see, / At his dull desk, amid his legers stall'd, / Eat up with carking care and penurie; / Most like to carcase parch'd on gallows-tree."

Synonyms

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carlcheap charliecheapskatechurlchurlmiser

Example

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"Here you a muckworm of the town might see, / At his dull desk, amid his legers stall'd, / Eat up with carking care and penurie; / Most like to carcase parch'd on gallows-tree."

Etymology

From muck + worm.

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