Meaning

2 senses

  1. A larva living in mud or manure.

  2. Someone who gathers wealth through overwork of employees and sordid means; a miser.

Origin

From muck + worm.

From muck + worm.

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Forms

plural: muckworms
Singularmuckworm
Pluralmuckworms

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
muchA1muckmucousmucusmudB1

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