Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The larva of any one of the flour-moths or flour-beetles.
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Examples
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I say this, that you shall not take such liberties with old Squire Derriman's nephew, you dirty miller's son, you flour-worm, you smut in the corn!
The Trumpet-Major Thomas Hardy 1884
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