"Mawworm" meaning in English

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          "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."
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          "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.",
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          "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.",
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        "A hypocrite."
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        "(now rare) A hypocrite."
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          "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.",
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          "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.",
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