英和和英

名詞

wormling (plural wormlings)

1. A small or young worm.
   • 1608, [Guillaume de Salluste] Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Du Bartas His Deuine Weekes and Workes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Humfrey Lownes [and are to be sold by Arthur Iohnson […]], published 1611, →OCLC:

     O dusty wormling! dar'st thou strive and stand / With Heav'ns high Monarch?

2. (by extension) Any weak, mean, or lowly creature.
   • 1797, Alexander Geddes, A New Translation of the Book of Psalms, published 1807:

     But I am a wormling, and not a man; the scorn of men, and derision of the people.

参照

• “wormling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.