Earthworm vs Maggot - What's the difference?
earthworm | maggot |
A worm that lives in the ground.
A worm of the Lumbricidae family, or, more generally, of the suborder.
(figurative) A contemptible person.
(figurative) Death.
A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter.
A term of insult for a 'worthless' person, as if a bug.
(obsolete) A whimsy or fancy.
* 1620 , , Women Pleased , III.iv.
As nouns the difference between earthworm and maggot
is that earthworm is a worm that lives in the ground while maggot is a soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter.earthworm
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(en noun)Synonyms
* (a ground-living worm) groundworm; wiggler, red worm, red wiggler (Southern US); nightwalker (New England); nightcrawlerHyponyms
* (a ground-living worm) baitworm; fishworm ; angleworm (Northern US); fishing worm (Southern US) - fish baitExternal links
* (Earthworm)Anagrams
*maggot
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(wikipedia maggot)Noun
(en noun)- Drop and give me fifty, maggot .
- Mr. Beveridge's Maggot , an old country dance [http://www.izaak.unh.edu/nhltmd/indexes/dancingmaster/Dance/Play4199.htm].
- Are you not mad, my friend? What time o' th' moon is't? / Have not you maggots in your brain?