wormy

worm·y (wûr

)

adj. worm·i·er, worm·i·est

1. Infested with or damaged by worms.

2. Suggestive of a worm.

wormi·ness n.

wormy [ˈwɜːmɪ]

adj wormier, wormiest

1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Zoology) worm-infested or worm-eaten

2. resembling a worm in appearance, ways, or condition

3. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Forestry) (of wood) having irregular small tunnels bored into it and tracked over its surface, made either by worms or artificially

4. low or grovelling

worminess n

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Adj.	1.	wormy - infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms vermiculate, worm-eaten worn - affected by wear; damaged by long use; "worn threads on the screw"; "a worn suit"; "the worn pockets on the jacket"
	2.	wormy - totally submissive cringing, groveling, grovelling, wormlike submissive - inclined or willing to submit to orders or wishes of others or showing such inclination; "submissive servants"; "a submissive reply"; "replacing troublemakers with more submissive people"

Translations

wormy [ˈwɜːmɪ] ADJ

1. (= worm-eaten) [fruit] → con gusanos; [furniture] → carcomido, apolillado

2. (= full of worms) [soil] → lleno de gusanos

wormy

adj apple → wurmig; wood → wurmstichig; soil → wurmreich

wormy [ˈwɜːmɪ] adj (-ier (comp) (-iest (superl))) (fruit) → bacato/a; (furniture) → tarlato/a

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cringing
groveling
grovelling
Ill Temper
Vermicious
vermiculate
worm-eaten
wormlike

Voluptuousness: to the rabble, the slow fire at which it is burnt; to all wormy wood, to all stinking rags, the prepared heat and stew furnace.

Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context

Your money came out of, or went into, wormy old wooden drawers, particles of which flew up your nose and down your throat when they were opened and shut.

A Tale Of Two Cities by Dickens, Charles View in context

Their irons had chafed the skin from their ankles and made sores which were ulcerated and wormy.

A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context

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