fishing worm

Questions about fishing worm

What does fishing worm mean?

fishing worm means "terrestrial worm that burrows into and helps aerate soil; often surfaces when the ground is cool or wet; used as bait by anglers".

What is another word for fishing worm?

Close synonyms include earthworm, angleworm, fishworm, wiggler, nightwalker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fishing worm a common word?

fishing worm is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.