muckwormn.
/ˈmʌkwəːm/, U.S. /ˈməkˌwərm/ 1. derogatory.† a. A miser, a money-grubber. Obsolete.† c. A street urchin. Obsolete.
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the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [noun] > niggard or mean person > miser or hoarder of wealth
chinch?a1300
wretch1303
chincher1333
muckererc1390
mokerarda1400
muglard1440
gatherer?a1513
hoarder?a1513
warner1513
hardhead1519
snudge1545
cob1548
snidge1548
muckmonger1566
mucker1567
miser?1577
scrape-penny1584
money-miser1586
gromwell-gainer1588
muckscrape1589
muckworm1598
scrib1600
muckraker1601
morkin-gnoff1602
scrape-scall1602
incubo1607
accumulator1611
gripe-money1611
scrape-good1611
silver-hider1611
gripe1621
scrapeling1629
clutch1630
scrape-pelfa1640
volpone1672
spare-penny1707
save-all1729
bagger1740
spare-thrift1803
money-codger1818
hunger-rot1828
muckrake1850
muckthrift1852
gripe-penny1860
hugger-mugger1862
Scrooge1940
1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. vi. 45 Ech Muck-worme will be rich with lawlesse gaine.
c1649 Twelve Brave Bels of Bow in H. E. Rollins Cavalier & Puritan (1923) 253 Which hords up their money & makes it their Gods Hang those muck-worms which doe repine.
1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia Generalis 393/1 He's a covetous fellow, a very muckworm.
1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence i. l Here you a muckworm of the town might see, At his dull desk.
1801 Port Folio 4 July 215/2 Useful Science and Liberal Art give place to muckworm misers, and the defiling processes of ‘creeping Gain’.
1873 H. Rogers Superhuman Origin Bible vi. 222 A mere muckworm, sordid and rapacious in the extreme.
1929 D. H. Lawrence Pansies 47 The money-muck, you simple flowers of your forefathers' muck-heap; and the money-muck-worms, the extant powers that have got you in keep.]
b. A person who is despicable, esp. one who is intellectually or morally deficient; a lowly person. Now rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [noun] > state or quality of being contemptible > contemptible person
wormc825
wretchOE
thingOE
hinderlingc1175
harlot?c1225
mixa1300
villain1303
whelpc1330
wonnera1340
bismera1400
vilec1400
beasta1425
creaturec1450
dog bolt1465
fouling?a1475
drivel1478
shit1508
marmoset1523
mammeta1529
pilgarlica1529
pode1528
slave1537
slim1548
skit-brains?1553
grasshopper1556
scavenger1563
old boss1566
rag1566
shrub1566
ketterela1572
shake-rag1571
skybala1572
mumpsimus1573
smatchetc1582
squib1586
scabship1589
vassal1589
baboon1592
Gibraltar1593
polecat1593
mushroom1594
nodc1595
cittern-head1598
nit1598
stockfish1598
cum-twang1599
dish-wash1599
pettitoe1599
mustard-token1600
viliaco1600
cargo1602
stump1602
snotty-nose1604
sprat1605
wormling1605
brock1607
dogfly?1611
shag-rag1611
shack-rag1612
thrum1612
rabbita1616
fitchock1616
unworthy1616
baseling1618
shag1620
glow-worm1624
snip1633
the son of a worm1633
grousea1637
shab1637
wormship1648
muckworm1649
whiffler1659
prig1679
rotten egg1686
prigster1688
begged fool1693
hang-dog1693
bugger1694
reptile1697
squinny1716
snool1718
ramscallion1734
footer1748
jackass1756
hallion1789
skite1790
rattlesnake1791
snot1809
mudworm1814
skunk1816
stirrah1816
spalpeen1817
nyaff1825
skin1825
weed1825
tiger1827
beggar1834
despicability1837
squirt1844
prawn1845
shake1846
white mouse1846
scurf1851
sweep1853
cockroach1856
bummer1857
medlar1859
cunt1860
shuck1862
missing link1863
schweinhund1871
creepa1876
bum1882
trashbag1886
tinhorn1887
snot-rag1888
rodent1889
whelpling1889
pie eatera1891
mess1891
schmuck1892
fucker1893
cheapskate1894
cocksucker1894
gutter-bird1896
perisher1896
skate1896
schmendrick1897
nyamps1900
ullage1901
fink1903
onion1904
punk1904
shitepoke1905
tinhorn sport1906
streeler1907
zob1911
stink1916
motherfucker1918
Oscar1918
shitass1918
shit-face1923
tripe-hound1923
gimp1924
garbage can1925
twerp1925
jughead1926
mong1926
fuck?1927
arsehole1928
dirty dog1928
gazook1928
muzzler1928
roach1929
shite1929
mook1930
lug1931
slug1931
woodchuck1931
crud1932
dip1932
bohunkus1933
lint-head1933
Nimrod1933
warb1933
fuck-piga1935
owl-hoot1934
pissant1935
poot1935
shmegegge1937
motheree1938
motorcycle1938
squiff1939
pendejo1940
snotnose1941
jerkface1942
slag1943
yuck1943
fuckface?1945
fuckhead?1945
shit-head1945
shite-hawk1948
schlub1950
asswipe1953
mother1955
weenie1956
hard-on1958
rass hole1959
schmucko1959
bitch ass1961
effer1961
lamer1961
arsewipe1962
asshole1962
butthole1962
cock1962
dipshit1963
motherfuck1964
dork1965
bumhole1967
mofo1967
tosspot1967
crudball1968
dipstick1968
douche1968
frickface1968
schlong1968
fuckwit1969
rassclaat1969
ass1970
wank1970
fecker1971
wanker1971
butt-fucker1972
slimeball1972
bloodclaat1973
fuckwad1974
mutha1974
suck1974
cocksuck1977
tosser1977
plank1981
sleazebag1981
spastic1981
dweeb1982
bumboclaat1983
dickwad1983
scuzzbag1983
sleazeball1983
butt-face1984
dickweed1984
saddie1985
butt plug1986
jerkweed1988
dick-sucker1989
microcephalic1989
wankstain1990
sadster1992
buttmunch1993
fanny1995
jackhole1996
fassyhole1997
fannybaws2000
fassy2002
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > the lowest class > [noun] > person of the lowest class
ribalda1250
kitchen knave1440
scullion1483
scudler1488
canel raker?1518
channel raker1575
proletary1576
muckworm1649
proletariana1657
infimate1733
proletaire1796
coolie1803
gutterling1846
mudsill1858
prole1887
gutter-sparrow1890
gutter-bird1896
underworldling1928
delta1932
lumpenproletarian1936
proly1959
society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > baseness or moral vileness > person
wretchOE
filthOE
birdc1300
villain1303
caitiffc1330
crachouna1400
crathona1400
custronc1400
sloven?a1475
smaik?1507
rook?a1513
scavenger1563
scald1575
peasant1581
scaba1592
bezonian1592
slave1592
patchcock1596
muckworm1649
blackguard1732
ramscallion1734
nasty1825
cad1838
boundera1889
three-letter man1929
1649 Mercurius Pragmaticus (for King Charls II) No. 19 sig. T2v A People..such as will never doe the King good but against their wills;..Meere Muck-wormes, good for nothing to but to tread on.
1653 A. Collins Divine Songs & Meditacions sig. F6 Wch earthly muckworms can in no wise know being of the Holy Spirit destitute.
1695 W. Congreve Love for Love ii. i. 27 'Oons whose Son are you? how were you engendred, Muckworm?
1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle IV. ciii. 131 As light-headed as some muck-worm philosophers.
1798 T. Jones Memoirs (1951) 74 He was a Muckworm—And as his brutal appetites were sufficeintly satiated, he treated her with rude neglect.
1816 B. Waterhouse Jrnl. Young Man Massachusetts vii. 94 Each..shared his proportion of the profits. This answered a very good purpose; it checked the monopolizers and muck worms that infested our ship.
?1863 T. Taylor Ticket-of-leave Man i. 21 Never heed that muck-worm! come, dry thine eyes.
1891 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 799/2 Better..are the splendid swing, the captivating enthusiasm, of Drayton's Agincourt, which hardly a muck-worm could hear unstirred.
1955 S. H. Adams Grandfather Stories 248 Everybody began to shout. Politics, prophecies and recriminations crossed in the smoky air. ‘—best thing for the town’..‘dummock’—‘pack o' scrimshankers’—‘Federalist muckworm!’—‘poxy Democrat!’.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > low rank or condition > other people of low rank or condition > [noun] > street people > children > street-child
blackguard1699
street girl1764
street boy1796
mudlark1814
street urchin1827
gamin1832
street child1839
Arab1847
street Arab1853
muckworm1859
scuttler1867
gutter-snipec1869
gutter-child1870
gavroche1876
gutter-snippet1891
voyoua1896
street kid1910
dead-end kid1928
gurrier1936
1859 J. R. Green Oxf. Stud. (1901) ii. 57 The little Miss..is forbidden to play with the muckworms of the neighbourhood.
1891 H. Caine Scapegoat iii. 76 The veriest muckworm in the market-place spat out at sight of him.
2. A worm or grub that lives in manure; spec. the larva of a dung beetle. Now U.S.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [noun] > member of (worm) > that lives in muck
muckworm1628
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > eggs or young > [noun] > young or development of young > larva > defined by parasitism or feeding > that lives in muck
muckworm1628
1628 R. Hayman Quodlibets iv. 34 A mucke-Worm... Thou canst at once little of this earth see, But with one turne, halfe Heau'n obseru'd may bee.
1686 A. Horneck Crucified Jesus xxiii. 795 Grovel in the dust like a Muckworm.
1841 T. W. Harris Rep. Insects Massachusetts 28 There is a grub..which is frequently found under old manure heaps, and is commonly called muck-worm. It..is transformed to a dung-beetle called Scarabæus relictus by Mr. Say.
1856 Fraser's Mag. Oct. 479/2 A human soul metamorphosing itself into a muckworm.
1903 M. L. A. A. Treat Injurious Insects Farm & Garden (new ed.) 75 This grub, known as the Muck-worm, is the larva of a different beetle (Ligyrus).
1966–9 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 708/1 Muck worm—white worm the size of my finger.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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