wormily
advUK /ˈwəː.mə.lɪ/ · US /ˈwɝ.mə.li/
Etymology From wormy + -ly.
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In a manner reminding of a worm, with much twisting and turning.
- 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:
- 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: