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fishing worm

American  

noun

Midland and Southern U.S.
  1. an earthworm.


Regionalisms

See earthworm.

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A fishing worm may be a great success as a fishing worm, but a total failure as a mule.

From A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties by Major, Charles

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