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maltworm

noun

Etymology

From malt + worm.

  1. inherited from *wr̥mis✻
  2. inherited from *wurmiz✻
  3. inherited from wyrm — “worm, snake”
  4. inherited from worm
  5. compounded as maltworm — “malt + worm”

Definitions

  1. A tippler

    A tippler; a drinker of alcohol.

    • The fiend hath prick'd down Bardolph irrecoverable; and his face is Lucifer's privy-kitchen, where he doth nothing but roast malt-worms.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for maltworm. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA