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wormily en · ADV

Pronunciation

• /ˈwɝ.mə.li/ (US)
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• /ˈwəː.mə.lɪ/ (UK)

Etymology

Etymology tree English wormy Middle English -ly English -ly English wormily From wormy + -ly.

Meanings

1. In a manner reminding of a worm, with much twisting and turning.
   • Susan Klein’s fat, puppy-lard face began to ripple, and slowly, wormily, […] there emerged an ordinary looking individual who might have been seen just about anywhere. Spring 1999, D. F. Lewis, Stuart Hughes, “Beyond the comfort zone”, in Roadworks, number 4, pages 16–18:
   • It was not, he declares, anything connected with the cubes and caves of echoing, vaporous, wormily honeycombed mountains of madness which he crossed […] 1936, H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness:

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