"Mawworm" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "The name of a character in the play The Hypocrite (1768) by Isaac Bickerstaffe; from maw-worm.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Mawworms",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "Mawworm (plural Mawworms)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
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          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1853 - \"Editor's letter box\", Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal, vol.1 (new series), no.49, p.1090, 9 December 1853",
          "text": "That there are a sufficient number of Mawworms and Cantwells in the profession, is abundantly proved by the number of signatures obtained to the petition against opening the Crystal Palace on Sundays."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1862 March 15, “Military mawwormism”, in Punch, page 103:",
          "text": "So, according to this Mawworm, it is not the play itself but its being acted publicly that is so pernicious.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter II, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 30:",
          "text": "He felt that he had chosen the one who was in all respects the superior; and a man naturally likes to look forward to having the best. He would be the very Mawworm of bachelors who pretended not to expect it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986 December 12, The Ottawa Citizen, page E8:",
          "text": "Troublemakers come in splendid variety - from the catamaran, or quarrelsome scold, to the solopsist, or self-absorbed, self-referential me addict; from the blateroon, or compulsive chatterbox, to the mawworm, or pious, mealy-mouthed hypocrite.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hypocrite."
      ],
      "id": "en-Mawworm-en-noun-IRnLdULA",
      "links": [
        [
          "hypocrite",
          "hypocrite"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now rare) A hypocrite."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "maw-worm"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Isaac Bickerstaffe",
        "The Hypocrite"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Mawworm"
}

{
  "etymology_text": "The name of a character in the play The Hypocrite (1768) by Isaac Bickerstaffe; from maw-worm.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "Mawworms",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "Mawworm (plural Mawworms)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "maw-worm"
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "English countable nouns",
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        "English terms with rare senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1853 - \"Editor's letter box\", Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal, vol.1 (new series), no.49, p.1090, 9 December 1853",
          "text": "That there are a sufficient number of Mawworms and Cantwells in the profession, is abundantly proved by the number of signatures obtained to the petition against opening the Crystal Palace on Sundays."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1862 March 15, “Military mawwormism”, in Punch, page 103:",
          "text": "So, according to this Mawworm, it is not the play itself but its being acted publicly that is so pernicious.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1871, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter II, in Middlemarch […], volume I, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book I, page 30:",
          "text": "He felt that he had chosen the one who was in all respects the superior; and a man naturally likes to look forward to having the best. He would be the very Mawworm of bachelors who pretended not to expect it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1986 December 12, The Ottawa Citizen, page E8:",
          "text": "Troublemakers come in splendid variety - from the catamaran, or quarrelsome scold, to the solopsist, or self-absorbed, self-referential me addict; from the blateroon, or compulsive chatterbox, to the mawworm, or pious, mealy-mouthed hypocrite.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A hypocrite."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "hypocrite",
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now rare) A hypocrite."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Isaac Bickerstaffe",
        "The Hypocrite"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "Mawworm"
}