Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various beetle larvae that bore into wood.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A worm, grub, or larva that is bred in wood.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) See Wood worm, under
wood .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
beetle larva that bores into wood.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a larva of a woodborer
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Examples
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There were still relics like this lurking in farm buildings when I started out on my agricultural life: I recall finding a woodworm-infected patten lying in the manger of a stable a week or so after the last draught horse had been put to sleep.
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And his pegleg got woodworm and broke into three.'
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They own helicopters and submarines and they can afford to spread the woodworm of corruption through poor countries, right to the top.
Johann Hari: Obama Must End the War on Drugs -- or Mexico and Afghanistan Will Collapse 2009
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The presence of sap will attract woodworm, which love its sweetness, so you must cut your hazel while the sap is sunk for the winter.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The presence of sap will attract woodworm, which love its sweetness, so you must cut your hazel while the sap is sunk for the winter.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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And his pegleg got woodworm and broke into three.'
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Wormwood buttering rack, Edwardian rat-hair doormat, woodworm in French fluting and the set of wooden birthing stirrups ...... are not necessarily an essential accompaniment to the modern bric a brac home, to which he adds:
Archive 2008-07-01 2008
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Leaning at the main door of the farm you saw behind you the coming of the woodworm.
Arnold de Vos greenintegerblog 2008
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The amount of wildlife in the house was evident; bright orange sawdust outlined the furniture, indicating that the chairs are only staying upright because the woodworm are holding hands.
NO-HO - Nov. 20: Absurdity Day Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2008
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I was on Guido when he blogged about the injuries and the nutters came out of the panelling like .303 woodworm.
Is fairness enough? Alix Mortimer 2008
sonofgroucho commented on the word woodworm
Definitely not one for Sog's Ark!
November 25, 2007
grasshopper commented on the word woodworm
Master SoG, this is precisely the weakness that the wordworm and I are exploiting to evade virus and worm detectors. She has proved to be quite cunning, removing the "c" from covert to escape from under containment on the c list. She is now in ninja training.
Under guise of woodworm, she infiltrated the Google lexicon, and inserted detartrated in their lookup dictionary. If you enter "detartrat", Google now asks "Did you mean: detartrated". She also entered the Scriptorium at OED headquarters and found a citation for demidiate, from The Entomological Dictionary of 1913, where it is defined as "half-round".
Are there other missions you wish us to undertake?
November 25, 2007
sonofgroucho commented on the word woodworm
"You have done well, grasshopper!" as Master Po used to say.
However, I haven't a clue what you are talking about!
November 26, 2007
grasshopper commented on the word woodworm
Master SoG, four days beyond a fortnight past, I sprang Minerva-like from the mind of reesetee on the pages of paua, abetted by uselessness and mollusque.
November 27, 2007
reesetee commented on the word woodworm
You didn't spring Minerva-like from me!
November 27, 2007
chained_bear commented on the word woodworm
Great. I have no idea how to list that.
November 27, 2007
reesetee commented on the word woodworm
Maybe you can use it to replace tedium. Just a thought.
November 27, 2007
uselessness commented on the word woodworm
Jove. Minerva sprang from Jove. Reesetee is Jove. ;-)
November 28, 2007
reesetee commented on the word woodworm
How can I be Jove if I'm already Gandhi? Palooka? Some help here!
Signed, pharaoh moohlah
November 28, 2007
sionnach commented on the word woodworm
I wonder if woodworm hold up well to tippling wormwood.
November 29, 2007