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ˈwormish, a. rare.
[-ish.]
Worm-like; as weak or despicable as a worm. Also ˈwormishness, wormish or craven behaviour.
a1586Sidney Arcadia v. (1922) 177 In such a shadowe, or rather pit of darkenes, the wormish mankinde lives, that neither they knowe how to foresee, nor what to feare. 1616Hayward Sanct. Troub. Soul i. §3. 52 Be not angry with vs (wormish weakelings) although we offend; for thou knowest what we are and whereof we are made. 1632Lithgow Trav. i. 3, I haue a..iudgement to discerne such wormish waspes. 1923V. Woolf Let. 1 Apr. (1977) III. 26 Murry wrote me a wormish letter, by the way, about the differences between us, and our memories and so on. 1925H. Nicolson Let. 23 July in J. Lees-Milne Harold Nicolson (1980) I. xi. 239 My wormishness to Elizabeth. |