Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Infested with or damaged by worms.
- adjective Suggestive of a worm.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Containing a worm; full of worms; infested or affected with worms; lousy, as fish; measly, as pork; worm-eaten, as timber, fruit, etc.
- Worm-like; low; mean; debased; groveling; earthy.
- Associated with earthworms, and hence with the earth or the grave; gloomy or dismal as the grave.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Containing a worm; abounding with worms.
- adjective Like or pertaining to a worm; earthy; groveling.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or like a
worm or worms. - adjective
Infested with worms.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms
- adjective totally submissive
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Examples
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Creative recalls wormy Neeons p2p news / p2pnet:- Creative admits some of its Zen Neeon mobiles went into the marketplace with a passenger the W32.
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The only worm recognized as edible by civilized man is produced in Italy and vulgarly known as wormy-chilly.
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While the slump-shouldered Johnson could best be described as "wormy," Nicks is a specimen.
Greg Hanlon: Feels Like 2007... And Not in a Good Way: Eagles 40 - Giants 17 2009
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Rabbits were "wormy" and the law prohibited the shooting of almost everything else.
Boy Scouts of the Air on Lost Island Gordon Stuart
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Those long, gangling men, theyre nearly always too kind of wormy to be any good in athletics, and theyre so awkward they keep falling over chairs or28
Chapter 6 1918
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He very seldom now, being over eighty, with a strange "wormy" pain in his left ear, took his horses out himself.
The Cathedral Hugh Walpole 1912
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He hated his old woman, and in a vaguely superstitious, thoroughly Glebeshire fashion half-believed that she had cast a spell over him and was really responsible for his "wormy" ear.
The Cathedral Hugh Walpole 1912
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In fact, it's a testament to people's distrust of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) that 40 percent still went for the "wormy" option.
Signs of the Times 2010
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He said he looked wormy, meaning too skinny for a tight end.
Red Reporter 2010
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