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bookworm
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s (of people), 1855 of insects or maggots; there is no single species known by this name, which is applied to the anolium beetle, silverfishes, and book lice. See book (n.) + worm (n.).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bookworm may refer to: Bibliophile or bookworm, an avid reader and lover of books Bookworm (insect) , a popular generalization for any insect which supposedly bores through books The Bookworm (Bookstore) , an independent bookstore in Beijing, China Bookworm ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ an ideal gift for the bookworm in the family ▪ I was a real bookworm when I was a child. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Fox never could understand why the bookworm had to read to gain knowledge.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit [syn: pedant , scholastic ] someone who spends a great deal of time reading
Usage examples of bookworm.
Then you grow up to a life of fatboys and four-eyes, bullies and bookworms, fudgers and smudgers.
We bookworms are all of us now and then betrayed into an extravagance.
He did not play the schoolmaster, like bookworms who get poor little lads in their grasp.
I let him know without saying as much that I had no financial worries, that I was neither an athlete nor a bookworm, that I intended to sandwich a very good series of very good times in between the necessary study.
The old bookworm is so intoxicated with the sight and handling of the priceless treasures that he cannot bear to put one of the volumes back after he has taken it from the shelf.
And, now that she thought about it, Kari the bookworm was suddenly hanging out with several kids who had nothing in common, including Anya and Michael.
So what if she was just a little too plump, so what if she could have been the poster girl for Bookworms Anonymous?
I thought we could conduct an experiment to see if a cat can sniff out bookworms.
There seemed to be little chance of regaining the poem without a fearsome struggle, and besides, without the bookworms and the Prose Portal, Polly would stay in her Wordsworthian prison forever.