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Muckworm
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. A larva or grub that lives in muck or manure; -- applied to the larvæ of the tumbledung and allied beetles.
2. One who scrapes together money by mean labor and devices; a miser. "Misers are muckworms." Pope.