groundworm

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Etymology[edit]

ground +‎ worm

Noun[edit]

groundworm (plural groundworms)

  1. (dialectal, dated) earthworm
    • 1828, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations, Volume 1, Houghton Mifflin (1909), Journal XIX, p. 239
      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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