• Groundworm

    Alternative forms

    Origin

    ground + worm

    Full definition of groundworm

    Noun

    groundworm

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