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Wormling vs Workling - What's the difference?

wormling | workling |

As nouns the difference between wormling and workling

is that wormling is a little worm while workling is one who is employed or who works; worker.

wormling

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A little worm.
    • O dusty wormling ! dost thou strive and stand / With heaven's high monarch? — Sylvester.
  • (label) Any weak, mean, or lowly creature.
  • *1807 , Alexander Geddes, A New Translation of the Book of Psalms :
    • But I am a wormling , and not a man ; the scorn of men, and derision of the people.
    (Webster 1913)

    workling

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who is employed or who works; worker.
  • *1857 , Thomas Hughes Milner, The Christian advocate, ed. by T.H. Milner - Page 171 :
    • Among its trophies it can point to penitent blasphemers, reclaimed drunkards, reformed prostitutes, and awakened worklings .
  • *1901 , Transportation-Communication Employees Union, Trans-communicator - Volume 18 - Page 123 :
    • Not into land's expansion, Not to the miser's chest, Not to the princely mansion, Not to the blazoned crest, Not to the sordid workling , Not to the knavish clown, Not to the haughty tyrant, Cometh n blessing down.
  • *1978 , South Africa. Dept. of Education. Adult Education Division, Lantern - Volumes 28-29 - Page 86 :
    • The worklings can be seen on the slopes of the koppie in the left background Kamiesberg - which Fannin visited Fannin 's Mine today.
  • *2005 , James R. Moulton, Peter the Great and the Russian military campaigns :
    • Here are five master-builders besides worklings , all british [sic] subjects; three are masters reckoned as good carpenters as any we have in Great-Britain, and considering that all of them are good subjects, [...]
  • *2007 , Matthew Woods, The Chrysalis Time :
    • A bloody nation pushed empathy of a sight-sighing gargoyle smile from up high by lung-lapped seagull soars and swells its raffle high in the sky made for worklings . The lantern well fits the mist of design from the rocky swing of flying whiles.