Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An intestinal worm which may be found in the stomach, as a pin-worm or threadworm, such as Oxyuris vermicularis.
- noun A man who resembles Mawworm, a character in Bickerstaffe's play “The Hypocrite,” 1769; a hypocritical pretender to sanctity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Any intestinal worm found in the stomach, esp. the common round worm (
Ascaris lumbricoides ), and allied species. - noun One of the larvæ of botflies of horses; a bot.
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- noun Alternative spelling of
maw-worm .
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Tryanite commented on the word mawworm
An example of mawworm:
“He would be the very Mawworm of bachelors who pretended not to expect it.”
Excerpt From: George Eliot. “Middlemarch.” iBooks. https://itun.es/us/dOSzx.l
February 18, 2017