Crossword-Solution: MUCKWORM
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| Muckworm | n. | A larva or grub that lives in muck or manure; -- applied to the larvae of the tumbledung and allied beetles. |
| Muckworm | n. | One who scrapes together money by mean labor and devices; a miser. |
We have 1 clue for the answer “MUCKWORM”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| any larva or worm that lives in mud | 1 answer |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "MUCKWORM"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Dermatological complaint
?
E
?
C
?
Z
?
E
?
M
?
A
Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
CEZEMA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
9 +1
New Suggestion for "MUCKWORM"
Related word tools
Sentences with MUCKWORM (5)
The spleen, ha, ha, ha; a pox confound you—solos or sonatas? ’Oons, whose son are you? How were you engendered, muckworm? JERE.
The fisherman, meanwhile, stands in three feet of water, under the same summer’s sun, arbitrating in other cases between muckworm and shiner, amid the fragrance of water-lilies, mint, and pontederia, leading his life many rods from the dry land, within a pole’s length of where the larger fishes swim.
Behold yon mystic form Bedeck'd with feathers, insects, weeds, and shells! Not with intenser view the Samian sage Bent his fix'd eye on heaven's intenser fires, When first the order of that radiant scene Swell'd his exulting thought, than this surveys A muckworm's entrails, or a spider's fang.
Sir Penurious Muckworm wishes him to marry his niece and ward, Arbella, but as Arbella loves Gaylove, a young barrister, the tike is played upon thus: Gaylove assumes to be Muckworm, and his lad, Slango, dresses up as a woman to pass for Arbella; and while Sapskull “marries” Slango, Gaylove, who assumes the dress and manners of the Yorkshire tike, marries Arbella.
Armed with a bodkin and a barker he rushes and tushes his way through life, slitting weasands and dubbing every cully he meets a muckworm in the pleasant idiom current (so I take it on faith) in the time of our second JAMES.