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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

bookwormy en · ADJ

Etymology

From bookworm + -y.

Meanings

  1. Like a bookworm; studious.
    • He's a teacher or something, one of them bookwormy men, whose head never pays no attention to what the rest of him is doing. 1912, Alice Hegan Rice, A Romance of Billy Goat Hill, page 39:

Forms

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most bookwormy Degree=Sup lexicographic
more bookwormy Degree=Cmp lexicographic

Synonyms

bookwormish