wormling
nounEtymology From worm + -ling. Compare Icelandic yrmlingur (“wormling”).
1
A small or young worm.
- O dusty wormling! dar'st thou strive and stand / With Heav'ns high Monarch?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:
2
Broadly Any weak, mean, or lowly creature.
- But I am a wormling, and not a man; the scorn of men, and derision of the people.1797, Alexander Geddes, A New Translation of the Book of Psalms, published 1807: