Dictionaries › English

tagworm

The English word “tagworm” has 1 meaning listed here.

noun

  1. A specific type of maggot or grub used as natural bait for catching fish, particularly trout.

Etymology

According to The Oxford English Dictionary, the earliest evidence for tag-worm is from 1602, in the writing of Richard Carew, antiquary and poet.

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “tagworm” there

More English words

About this dictionary

The English dictionary on Glottosphere has 650,529 entries with a page. Browse the English dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.