worm n.— «“Everyone thinks they’re going to go to college, but we’re all back in the oil fields doing what our dads did,” says one rookie, called a “worm” in roughneck parlance. “I was going to do big things and...
wooly booger n.— «Wooly worm analysts from miles around, in convention assembled, gravely discussed the state of the 1992 wooly worms’ fur.…Texans, of course, know that this is nonsense. And by the way, we also know that the actual...
woolly-booger n. (also woolly-bugger) 1. (colloquial) the larval-stage insect known as the woolly worm or woolly bear; a fishing fly that resembles such an insect. 2. (in the American Southwest, slang) an extraordinary example of a thing. 3. (in...
castings n.pl.— «The worm’s waste materials, delicately referred to as “castings,” or, indelicately, as “poop,” are eaten by microbes and fungi, allowing them to grow and reproduce and sequester minerals from the soil...
worm dirt n.— «Tim lobbed a small green disc across the garage at Noel and said, “Worm dirt.” Noel caught the disc, opened it. He held the tobacco to his nose.» —by Lee Durkee Riders of the Midway Feb., 2001...
worm dirt n. chewing tobacco. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)