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US
/ˈbʊˌkwɝm/
]
[ UK /bˈʊkwɜːm/ ]
[ UK /bˈʊkwɜːm/ ]
NOUN
- a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
- someone who spends a great deal of time reading
How To Use bookworm In A Sentence
- Noble Nook, Sony Reader, and other ePub-compatible devices, as well as reader software such as ibis and Bookworm. Applelinks.com
- And I was a bookworm from the very beginning and to this day. Garry Wills' Adventures As An 'Outsider Looking In'
- The Clinic has plans to market insecticidal papers which need to be interleafed in books and magazines to keep away silverfish and bookworms.
- According to him, termites and bookworms damage palm-leaf inscriptions.
- A rare book containing an original drawing of the world's most popular cartoon bear is still available after bookworms in York failed to snap it up.
- The Clinic has plans to market insecticidal papers which need to be interleafed in books and magazines to keep away silverfish and bookworms, explains Mr. Shaji.
- A bylane off Sitaram Ghosh Street would generally be considered a bookworm's haunt. WN.com - Business News
- When the bookworms did not crumble into a fit of giggles (as they usually do when I have caught them ditching dodo*) my brain tangled in confusion. Embêter - French Word-A-Day
- Up until then Callum had just been sitting quietly watching the bookworm, but now he spoke up.
- I was slightly on the chubby side then, a complete bookworm and teacher's pet.