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Wormish vs Wordish - What's the difference?

wormish | wordish |

As adjectives the difference between wormish and wordish

is that wormish is like a worm while wordish is of or pertaining to words; verbal; wordy.

wormish

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Like a worm.
  • * 1917? , Edwin L. Sabin, How Are You Feeling Now? (page 70)
    • He has scarcely time wishfully to choose the prettiest one of the nurses who look curiously down from the windows above when he glides, still wormish , underneath a portcullis, which clangs behind him like the clang of doom, and the elevator slowly ascends.

    Synonyms

    * wormy

    wordish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to words; verbal; wordy.
  • *1899 , Philip Gengembre Hubert, The Atlantic monthly: Volume 83 :
    • He yieldeth to the power of the mind an image of that of which the philosopher bestoweth but a wordish description.
  • *2006 , Edward Armstrong, A Ciceronian sunburn :
    • "[...] But both have such an affinity in the wordish consideration, that I think this digression will make my meaning receive the fuller understanding."

    Derived terms

    * (l)