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wormish

wormish adjective: like a worm.

Adjective

wormish (comparative more wormish, superlative most wormish)

  1. Like a worm.
    • He has scarcely time wishfully to choose the prettiest one of the nurses who look curiously down from the windows above when he glides, still wormish, underneath a portcullis, which clangs behind him like the clang of doom, and the elevator slowly ascends.1917?, Edwin L. Sabin, How Are You Feeling Now? (page 70)
    • Among his [Darwin's] typically methodical observations of wormish habits was the following: "Worms do not possess any sense of hearing. They took not the least notice of the shrill notes from a metal whistle, which was repeatedly sounded near them […]1988, David Quammen, The Flight of the Iguana
    Synonyms:
    wormy

Synonyms of wormish

Forms of wormish

comparativemore wormish
superlativemost wormish

Origin of wormish

From worm + -ish.

Questions about wormish

What does wormish mean?
Wormish means like a worm.
What part of speech is wormish?
Wormish is an adjective.

Words near wormish in the dictionary

  1. worming
  2. worming out
  3. wormings
  4. Wormington
  5. Wormingtons
  6. wormish
  7. Wormit
  8. Wormleighton
  9. wormless
  10. wormlessness
  11. wormlet

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