earthworm
urth wurm
- n terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers
- Still, all that macho blathering was a weird match for me, a kid with the self-esteem of an earthworm.
- Among the highlights: a gigantic earthworm wriggling on upended gravestones in the Rubens room.
- It added to the film, because I was photographed glamorously, but as an earthworm.