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▪ I. mawworm1 ? Obs.|ˈmɔːwɜːm|
[f. maw n.1 + worm.]
A worm infesting the stomach or intestines of man and other mammals, esp. applied to species of Ascaris and Oxyuris.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 336 It will presently destroy and consume the maw or belly-worms which are within him. a1619Fletcher Bonduca i. ii, Your warlike remedy against the maw-worms. 1694Salmon Bate's Dispens. (1713) 672/2 If..you add Powder of Maw-Worms vj. it will be much more effectual. 1784Underwood Dis. Children (1799) I. 142 The very small maw-worm, or ascarides, resembling bits of thread. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 275 The term Maw-worm, according to P. Harvey, is derived from the occasional visits which this animal makes to the maw or stomach.
fig.1652Benlowes Theoph. iii. xii, No Glutt'nies Maw⁓worm; nor the Itch of lust No Tympanie of Pride.
▪ II. mawworm2|ˈmɔːwɜːm|
(Properly with initial capital.)
A man who resembles Mawworm, a character in Bickerstaffe's play The Hypocrite, 1769; a hypocritical pretender to sanctity.
1850Tait's Mag. XVII. 547/2 Can it be that these..wailings have in their motive something of the Maworm spirit, ‘I like to be despised’. 1861J. Hollingshead in Gd. Words 441 We all know precisely what a mawworm is... He is a slimy villain. 1866Sala Barbary vii. 130 There was a sanctified Mawworm expression, too, about this fellow. 1872Geo. Eliot Middlem. i. ii, He would be the very Maw⁓worm of bachelors who pretended [etc.]. 1891R. Buchanan Coming Terror 353 The Scapin of Politics walks hand-in-hand with the Mawworm of Morality.
Hence ˈmawwormish, mawwormy adjs., ˈmawwormism n.
1850Tait's Mag. XVII. 547/2 Mawormism is a thing unknown north of the Tweed. 1883K. Blind in Gentl. Mag. Nov. 488 Luther..was..no maw-wormish mar-joy. 1885in J. R. Ware Passing Eng. (1909) 174/2 Without being mawwormy, I fail to see why a wreath should be presented to any man who makes a business of giving opera. |