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Bookworm vs Bookwormy - What's the difference?

bookworm | bookwormy |

As a noun bookworm

is any of various insects that infest books.

As an adjective bookwormy is

like a bookworm; studious.

bookworm

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of various insects that infest books.
  • An avid book reader.
  • See also

    * (avid reader) bibliophile

    bookwormy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Like a bookworm; studious.
  • * 1912 , Alice Hegan Rice, A Romance of Billy Goat Hill (page 39)
  • 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.

    Synonyms

    * bookwormish