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MAWWORM

Definition: MAWWORM

MAWWORM

Noun

1. One of the larvae of botflies of horses; a bot.

2. Any intestinal worm found in the stomach, esp. the common round worm (Ascaris lumbricoides), and allied species.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Note: Mawworm \Maw"worm`\, noun. [Maw the belly worm.]. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: MAWWORM

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Literature

Mawworm A vulgar copy of Dr. Cantwell, the hypocrite, in The Hypocrite, by Isaac Bickerstaff. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: MAWWORM

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Deceiver

Noun: deceiver; (deceive; ); dissembler, hypocrite; sophist, Pharisee, Jesuit, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Joseph Surface, Tartufe, Janus; serpent, snake in the grass, Judas, wolf in sheep's clothing; jilt; shuffler, stool pigeon.

Impiety

Sinner; scoffer, blasphemer; sacrilegist; sabbath breaker; worldling; hypocrite; (dissembler); Tartufe, Mawworm.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: MAWWORM

Specialty definitions using "MAWWORM": Pogram. (references)

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Modern Translation: MAWWORM

Language Translations for "MAWWORM"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Vietnamese 

  

giun sán (helminth). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: MAWWORM

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-m-m-o-r-w-w"

-3 letters: ammo, mora, roam, warm, worm.

-4 letters: arm, mar, maw, moa, mom, mor, mow, oar, ora, ram, raw, rom, row, war, waw, wow.

-5 letters: am, ar, aw, ma, mm, mo, om, or, ow, wo.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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