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book-worm

book-worm is the alternative form of bookworm.

Meaning of bookworm

Noun

bookworm (plural bookworms)

  1. Any of various insects that infest books.
  2. (figuratively) An avid book reader.
    • “This,” remarked the sedate observer beside me, “is a bookworm,—one of those men who are born to gnaw dead thoughts. His clothes, you see, are covered with the dust of libraries.1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Earth's Holocaust”, in Mosses from an Old Manse

Forms of book-worm

pluralbook-worms

Questions about book-worm

What is book-worm the alternative form of?
Book-worm is the alternative form of bookworm.

Words near book-worm in the dictionary

  1. book-trays
  2. book-ways
  3. book-wise
  4. book-word
  5. book-words
  6. book-worm
  7. book-worms
  8. book-wright
  9. book-wrights
  10. Bookaar
  11. bookability

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Adapted from Wiktionary: book-worm (page history and authors); bookworm (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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