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bookworms

bookworms is the plural 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

Questions about bookworms

What is bookworms the plural of?
Bookworms is the plural of bookworm.

Words near bookworms in the dictionary

  1. bookwords
  2. bookwork
  3. bookworm
  4. bookwormish
  5. bookwormism
  6. bookworms
  7. bookwormy
  8. bookwright
  9. bookwrights
  10. bookwriting
  11. booky

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