bookwormy

adj

bookwormy

adj

Etymology From bookworm + -y.

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:
Synonyms
bookwormish

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