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noungroundworm (plural groundworms)
plural groundworms · alternative ground-worm
- dateddialectalearthworm
They are scheming and talking, as if they belonged, like a toad or a ground-worm, to the acre on which they were born:
1828, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals of Ralph Waldo Emerson: with annotations, Volume 1, Houghton Mifflin (1909), Journal XIX, p. 239
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groundworm. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/groundworm
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“groundworm.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/groundworm. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “groundworm,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/groundworm.
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