wormy
adjEtymology From worm + -y.
1
Of or like a worm or worms; shaped like a worm or worms.
- The Siamese boy brought in plates containing wormy shreds of over-fried egg, seasoned with blackened bits of onion.1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 417:
2
Infested with worms.
- I am your witness. If their Ladyships so much as mention the word FIRE or STEERPIKE, you shall take them with you under wormy ground.1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan:
- Synonyms
- vermian, vermicular, vermiform, worm-eaten, wormed, wormridden
- Related terms
- earwormy