muckworm

名词 n.

英文释义

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

词形变化

muckworms plural

词源

From muck + worm.
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