Usually means: Obsessively greedy for wealth, miserly.
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  1. muckworm: Merriam-Webster
  2. muckworm: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. muckworm: Collins English Dictionary
  4. muckworm: Wordnik
  5. muckworm: Wiktionary
  6. muckworm: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. muckworm: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Muckworm, muckworm: Dictionary.com
  9. Muckworm: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. muckworm: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Muckworm: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. muckworm: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. Muckworm: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  14. muckworm: FreeDictionary.org
  15. muckworm: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (muckworm)

▸ noun:  A larva living in mud or manure.
▸ noun:  Someone who gathers wealth through overwork of employees and sordid means; a miser.

Similar:
muck, muck fly, muckiness, muckology, mucker, maddock, Mawworm, Mudd, mud water, maw worm, more...

Opposite:
spendthrift, prodigal, extravagant, wasteful

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Similar:
muck, muck fly, muckiness, muckology, mucker, maddock, Mawworm, Mudd, mud water, maw worm, more...

Opposite:
spendthrift, prodigal, extravagant, wasteful



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