angleworm
Americannoun
noun
Regionalisms
See earthworm.
Etymology
Origin of angleworm
Example Sentences
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He also offered to eat a bug for a nickel, an angleworm for a dime and a beetle for a quarter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Faced by a committee of angleworm lovers, Carroll Kjellman ... admitted he planted strips of rubber in the soil.
From Time Magazine Archive
It considered the mysteries and incantations of fishing, from spitting on angleworm segments to affixing trout cosmetics and bass liniments.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hemmed in by salt marshes, clinging to the angleworm course of the chocolate-colored Hooghly River, the city of Calcutta's 4,000,000 people inhabit an area about half the size of the District of Columbia.
From Time Magazine Archive
He haint got enny more backbone than an angleworm haz, and wiggles in and wiggles out ov every thing.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.
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