Wormy vs Wormish - What's the difference?
wormy | wormish | Synonyms |
Of or like a worm or worms.
Infested with worms.
Like a worm.
* 1917? , Edwin L. Sabin, How Are You Feeling Now? (page 70)
Wormish is a synonym of wormy.
As adjectives the difference between wormy and wormish
is that wormy is of or like a worm or worms while wormish is like a worm.wormy
English
Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* (of or like a worm''): vermian, vermicular (''in shape''), vermiform (''in shape ) * (infested with worms ): worm-eaten, wormedDerived terms
* wormily * worminesswormish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.