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wormy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective wormy has 2 senses
- wormy(s = adj.all) vermiculate, worm-eaten - infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms; Array Derived form noun worm1
- wormy(s = adj.all) cringing, groveling, grovelling, wormlike - totally submissive; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
wormy, a.
- Containing a worm; abounding with worms. Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Like or pertaining to a worm; earthy; groveling. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
wormy, adj. (wormier, wormiest)
1 full of worms.
2 wormeaten.
1 full of worms.
2 wormeaten.
Derivative
worminess n.
THESAURUS
wormy
barfy, beset, blasted, blighted, blown, crappy, despoiled, disgusting, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, flyblown, foul, frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, fusty, gloppy, grubby, gunky, icky, infested, lousy, maggoty, malodorous, mephitic, mildewed, moldering, moldy, moth-eaten, mucky, musty, nasty, nauseating, odious, ordurous, pedicular, pediculous, plagued, puky, putrid, rank, ratty, ravaged, repulsive, rotten, scabby, scummy, scurfy, shitty, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, smutted, smutty, sposhy, teeming, vermiform, vile, vomity, weevily, worm-eaten, wormlike, yecchy
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