Definitions for angleworm

angleworm an·gle·worm

Spelling: [ang-guh l-wurm]
IPA: /ˈæŋ gəlˌwɜrm/

Angleworm is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 577 anagrams from letters in angleworm (aeglmnorw).

Definitions for angleworm

noun

  1. an earthworm, as used for bait in angling.

Origin of angleworm

An Americanism dating back to 1825-35; angle2 + worm

Examples for angleworm

They bring us our chow and say it is angleworm and hellgrammite porridge as that is what the Subterro denizens live on mostly.

Then, picking up a sharp stick, she resolutely set to work to unearth an angleworm.

It was only the hens looking for something to eat—a bit of grain amid the straw, or perhaps an angleworm.

He was about six inches long and had a funny, short, pinkish-white, naked tail that at once reminded Peter of an angleworm.

And yet, compared to the life of an angleworm, condemned to the darkness forever, what an interesting career!

A man could even exhibit an angleworm in a bottle and call it the infant anaconda, and escape being lynched.

Grumpy Weasel was quick to see that fat Mrs. Hen swallowed every word he said as greedily as if it had been an angleworm.

The Civil War hero Ulysses Grant dismissed Republican James Garfield for lacking “the backbone of an angleworm.”

Stacy came out squirming like an angleworm being pulled from the ground after a spring rain.

In passin' I saw an angleworm three times the size of a firehose, and a beetle big enough to saddle.

Word Value for angleworm
Scrable

15

Words with friends

19

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