Associations to the word «Earthworm»

Wiktionary

EARTHWORM, noun. A worm that lives in the ground.
EARTHWORM, noun. A worm of the Lumbricidae family, or, more generally, of the Lumbricina suborder.
EARTHWORM, noun. (figurative) A contemptible person.
EARTHWORM, noun. (figurative) Death.

Dictionary definition

EARTHWORM, noun. Terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope