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Wormy   Listen
adjective
Wormy  adj.  (compar. wormier; superl. wormiest)  
1.
Containing a worm; abounding with worms. "Wormy beds."
2.
Like or pertaining to a worm; earthy; groveling.





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"Wormy" Quotes from Famous Books



... she hadn't dared to apply to anybody else. As soon as she came in and found out they'd gone, she took off her things and went right into the kitchen to help. She started to make some bread; but the flour was sour and wormy, and she wouldn't use it. So Mr. Randolph sent up some new, and told her to order anything she needed. You can imagine they had a good dinner! It was a first-class meal, they all said, the best they had ...
— Polly and the Princess • Emma C. Dowd
... navigated with the sober portion of the crew. And such a lousy, brawling lot of convicts I had never clapped eyes upon. As for me, I was treated indifferently well, though 'twas in truth punishment enough to live in that filthy ship, to eat their shins of beef and briny pork and wormy biscuit, to wear rough clothes that chafed my skin. I shared Cockle's cabin, in every way as dirty a place as the den I had left, but with the advantage of air, for ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... and hanged by our stern and cruel ancestors. Perhaps some gentle-hearted but timid Puritan souls may have inwardly felt that the Indian wars, and the destructive fires, and the earthquakes, and the dead cattle, blasted wheat, and wormy peas, were not judgments of God for small ministerial pay and periwig-wearing, but punishments for the heartrending woes of the ...
— Sabbath in Puritan New England • Alice Morse Earle


Words linked to "Wormy" :   submissive, worn, cringing, groveling, wormlike


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