Meaning of muckworm | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A larva living in mud or manure.
2. Someone who gathers wealth through overwork of employees and sordid means; a miser.

Examples

“Here you a muckworm of the town might see, / At his dull desk, amid his legers stall'd, / Eat up with carking care and penurie; / Most like to carcase parch'd on gallows-tree.”

“We have painted one Money-Lender — not the mere sordid muckworm of a century ago, but the man-eater of the present day.”

“Perhaps it is far too expensive for a notorious muckworm like you! I, however, am more generous.”

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