fishworm
Americannoun
Regionalisms
See earthworm.
Etymology
Origin of fishworm
Example Sentences
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We have all known him well from boyhood by several names—angleworm, fishworm, earthworm.
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"What you got last night, sonny, was for your own sake, but this time it's going to be for Frances'—you fishworm!"
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They are the earthworms, also called fishworms, which are distributed all over the world.
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"I never thought to ask him about Minervy," occurred to her while she was relentlessly dragging pale, fleshly fishworms from the loose black soil of Marthy's onion bed.
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There he was talking away to us fishworms just as cordially as if he enjoyed it.
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