wormyadj.

Brit.

/ˈwəːmi/, U.S.

/ˈwərmi/

Etymology: < worm n. + -y suffix¹. Compare Middle High German wurmic, -ec, German wurmig, Dutch wormig.

a. Attacked, gnawed, or bored by worms or grubs; worm-eaten.

ΘΠ

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > by loss of material or wasted > worm-eaten

wormetec1000

worm-fret1430

wormyc1430

worm-eatena1475

worm-eat1597

vermiculated1623

wormed1846

c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) ii. cxxxiii. 128 I am a wormy wilowh; who so leneth to me is lost.

1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory (1568) 120 b Studiously keping those monuments from wormie wemes.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vereux, wormie, full of wormes.

1708 J. Ozell tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin 54 The wormy Boards, by Time's corroding Spight disjoin'd.

1756 Mrs. Calderwood's Journey in Coltness Coll. (1842) 213 All the fruit in that country is very wormy, and some of the finest nuts had a great worm in the kirnall.

1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 69 And thou,—go burn thy wormy pages.

1848 C. Dickens Dombey & Son lvii. 573 An old brown, panelled, dusty vestry,..where the wormy registers diffuse a smell like faded snuff.

1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 176 We have picked nearly every apple (wormy or otherwise).

in extended use.1833 in New Statist. Acct. Scotl. (1845) III. 41 [Selkirk] The..herbage on the hills..was destroyed by a caterpillar in 1762, long called the wormy year.

b. figurative. = worm-eaten adj. 3.

ΘΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [adjective] > declining or deteriorating > in character or quality

infecta1387

palledc1390

rustyc1390

degeneratea1513

withered1561

bastardlike1577

degenerated1581

degenerous1600

bastardized1611

degenerating1611

wormy1611

autumnal1616

blood-shrunk1634

degenered1637

reduced1689

lowered1730

eviscerated1858

labefact1874

disbloomed-

the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated > of persons, views, etc.

old-fashioned1596

musty1603

mildewed1605

fusty1609

wormy1611

frumpy1746

fossila1770

arriéré1814

has-been1819

Rip Van Winkleish1829

frumpish1847

archaistic1850

fogey1852

fogeyish1852

old fogeyish1853

rusty-fusty1864

mossbacked1876

dead-handed1928

Victorian1934

unhep1939

unhip1939

dinosaurian1943

square1946

dinosaur-like1947

dinosauric1977

analogue1993

1611 L. Lewknor in T. Coryate Crudities sig. c5^v Old wormy age that in thy mustie writs Of former fooles records the present wits.

1908 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 3rd vii. viii. 343 Europe's wormy dynasties rerobe Themselves in their old gilt.

c. Architecture. = vermiculated adj. 1c.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [adjective] > resembling tracks made by worms

vermiculated1788

wormy1823

1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 482 In different parts of the Louvre, wormy or vermiculated rustics are to be found.

2. Of the body, its parts and secretions: Infested or affected with worms, itch-mites, etc. Of fish: Lousy (U.S.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of bowels or intestines > [adjective] > infestation by parasites

wormy1599

vermified1666

hydatid1826

vermigerous1853

helminthous1854

trichinous1857

verminous1860

trichiniferous1864

trichinatous1870

trichinosed1881

filarious1883

filariated1884

trichinotic1889

onchocercotic1918

schistosomial1934

1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 362/1 An oyntment for the Wormye, and itchinge Handes.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. xlii. 255 The iuice thereof dropped into wormie eares, doth kill the wormes that is in them.

1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines ii. viii. 105 What would..he presage by such a wormie vrine?

1679 T. Trapham Disc. Health Jamaica 103 Children the chief subjects of Worms and wormy Slime.

1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. 140 It is used by Chirurgeons in putrid and wormy ulcers.

1766 Compl. Farmer at Ascarides The horses that breed ascarides are, above all others, subject to slime and wormy matter.

1860 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 974/2 The poor of Scotland..are not more wormy than the better fed poor of England.

1884 Springfield (Mass.) Wheelmen's Gaz. Nov. 110/3 The stream was fairly alive with trout but the large ones were wormy.

3. Of earth, soil, the grave, etc.: Infested with worms, full of worms.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > infestation by noxious creatures > [adjective] > with worms

wormy1600

vermiculate1605

vermicular1655

vermiculous?1691

vermiculose1727

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [adjective] > consisting of > infested with

wormy1600

vermiculous?1691

vermiculose1727

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 385 Damned spirits all,..Already to their wormy beds are gone.

1631 W. Lisle Faire Æthiopian x. 176 The men of Sere, Who brought the King two silken robes to weare, Of daintie sleaue drawne from their wormie trees.

1673 J. Milton On Death Fair Infant v, in Poems (new ed.) 18 Yet can I not perswade me thou art dead..Or that thy beauties lie in wormie bed.

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 345 Loose wormey ground.

1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion iii. 108 Feelingly sweet is stillness after storm, Though under covert of the wormy ground!

1842 T. De Quincey Shakspeare in Encycl. Brit. XX. 187/1 The wormy grave brought into antagonism with the scenting of the early dawn.

1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance xvii. 176 Birds..busily scratched their food out of the wormy earth.

in extended use.1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 73 Wherefore all this wormy circumstance? Why linger at the yawning tomb so long?

a. Resembling a worm; worm-like.Formerly in technical terms, esp. Anatomy; as wormy body [translating Latin corpus lumbricosum : see worm n. 11a] , the epididymis; wormy process = vermiform process (vermiform adj. 3b).

ΘΠ

the world > space > shape > curvature > series of curves > [adjective] > having many or winding curves

tortivous14..

anfractuous?a1425

tortuous1426

tortuea1500

snakish1532

winding1538

wormy1545

boughty1570

wriggled1572

sinuous1578

serpent-likea1586

crankled1594

serpent1597

snaky1600

flexuous1605

snaking1605

cringle-crangle1606

voluminous1611

serpenting?1614

serpentine1615

curvy1623

serpentizing1628

worming1631

lacinious1648

anguineous1656

anguine1657

anfractuose1680

twisting1683

vermicular1712

worm-like1721

flexuose1727

meandering1748

crinkum-crankum1766

serpentiform1777

serpentining1799

anguiform1800

ophite1828

tortuose1829

cranky1836

sinuose1836

serpentile1857

twisty1857

sinuated1859

vermiculatea1864

twinyc1868

tortive1880

crinkle-crankle1881

serpentinous1882

quirky1890

twistical1890

waggly1894

wriggly1901

squiggly1902

wiggly1903

contortionate1911

wig-waggy1914

curvaceous1965

1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. sig. G.iiii^v When this foresayd woormy body hath attaynyd to y^e myddell regyon..of the stoone, and is no more..thicke wrethyd, but playn, smoth, and round.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 477 The anterior and posterior processes of the braine, called vermi-formes or the wormy processes.

1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. vi. xxix. 222 The 4. other [muscles of the hand] are called, by reason of their figure, the Lumbrici or wormy muscles.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) 60 Pliny..calls it Coccus Scolecius, or the Wormy Berry.

1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 8 A weary, wormy darkness, spurred i' the flank With flame, that it should eat and end itself Like some tormented scorpion.1876 W. Morris tr. Virgil Æneids vii. 351 The dreadful wormy thing Seemed the wrought gold about her neck [L. fit tortile collo aurum ingens coluber].1888 Harper's Mag. Aug. 327 With fleshy, brilliant, long, wormy feelers instead of fins.1895 B. M. Croker Village Tales (1896) 152 Lumps of sticky cocoanut and deliciously long, wormy native sweets.

b. figurative. Grovelling; earthy; crooked, tortuous.

ΘΠ

the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [adjective]

go-by-ground?a1300

thrall1398

abjectc1430

manly?c1430

servicious1440

serviceable1483

servile1537

tame1563

slavish1565

demiss1572

submissive1572

cringing1579

fawning1585

incrouching?1593

vassal1594

scraping1599

obsequious1602

spaniel1606

observing1609

deprostrate1610

supplea1616

vernile1623

shrugging1629

wormy1640

compliable1641

thrall-like1641

obeisant1642

inservient1646

truckling1656

cringeling1693

benecking1705

subservient1714

footman-like1776

bingeing1805

sidling1821

toadying1863

crawlsome1904

toadyish1909

crawling1941

ass-kissing1942

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] > contemptible

unworthc893

unwrastc893

littleOE

narrow-hearteda1200

wretcha1200

unworthya1240

wretchedc1250

un-i-wrastc1275

bad1276

lechera1300

feeblea1325

despisablea1340

villain1340

contemptiblec1384

lousyc1386

caitiff1393

brothelyc1400

roinousa1425

poor1425

sevenpennyc1475

nasty1477

peakish1519

filthy1533

despectuous1541

beggary1542

scald1542

shitten?1545

disdainfula1547

contemptuous1549

despicable1553

skit-brained?1553

contemniblea1555

vile1560

sluttish1561

queer1567

scornful1570

scallardc1575

tinkerly?1576

worthless1576

beggarly?1577

paltry1578

halfpenny1579

dog bolt1580

pitiful1582

sneaking1582

triobolar1585

wormisha1586

baddy1586

dudgeon1592

measled1596

packstaff1598

roguey1598

roguish1601

contemptful1608

grovelling1608

lightly1608

disdainable1611

purulent1611

snotty-nose1622

vilipendious1630

cittern-headed1638

wormy1640

pissabed1643

triobolary1644

disparageable1648

blue-bellied1652

unestimable1656

scullion1658

piteous1667

dirty1670

shabbed1674

shabby1679

snotty1681

snotty-nosed1682

mucky1683

bollocky1694

scoundrel1700

scaldeda1704

sneaking1703

ficulnean1716

unsolid1731

pitiable1753

scrubby1754

inimitable1798

scrubbish1798

worm-likea1807

small1824

lowlife1827

ketty1828

skunkish1831

yellow-bellied1833

scaly1843

cockroachya1845

wutless1853

nigger1859

trashy1862

low-down1872

cruddy1877

shitty1879

tinhorn1886

blithering1889

motherfucking1890

snidey1890

pilgarlicky1894

shitass1895

shoddy1918

yah boo1921

bitching1929

shit-faced1932

turdish1936

fricking1937

jerk-off1937

chickenshit1940

sheg-up1941

snot-nosed1941

jerky1944

mother-loving1948

scroungy1948

fecking1952

pissant1952

shit-kicking1953

shit-eating1956

bumboclaat1957

rassclaat1957

shit-headed1959

farkakte1960

shithouse1966

daggy1967

dipshit1968

scuzzy1969

bloodclaat1971

bitch ass1972

wanky1972

streelish1974

twatty1975

twattish1976

dweeby1988

douchey1991

wank1991

cockish1996

the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [adjective] > material or not spiritual > merely material

worldlyOE

earthlyOE

fleshlyc1175

materialc1390

carnal1483

charnel1483

earthen1538

world-like1577

earthy1594

materious1611

cloddy1634

wormy1640

unangelicala1711

descendental1847

unangelic1890

the world > space > direction > [adjective] > bending or winding

winding1555

straying1585

crankling1596

meandrian1608

tortive1609

meandered1612

serpentine1615

snailing1615

meandering1617

meandrous1639

meandric1658

wandering1667

wimpling1721

spiral1796

circumvolutory1834

wormy1869

twistering1872

twistified1872

twistical1890

1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xxxvii. 459 Hereby wee are brought to a Just Contempt of sordid and wormie Affections.

1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xxxviii. 499 To be of a creeping and wormy disposition,..to raise the Soule unto no higher Contemplations, than Base and Worldly.

1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 353 I have constantly considered the light of the Sun married as a husband to the Splendour of the Glo-worm;..one Heavenly and constant; but the other wormy or corruptible.

1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. vii. 33 That is the fruit of all such wormy ways, The indirect, the unapproved of God: You cannot find their author's end and aim.

5. Of or pertaining to worms. poetic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [adjective]

vermicular1713

helminthic1755

wormy1801

vermiculous1813

vermiform1835

vermian1878

vermean1905

1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. ix. 164 Next with naked hand She plucked the boughs of the manchineel. Then of the wormy wax she took, That from the perforated tree forced out, Bewrayed its insect-parent's work within.

1842 T. Hood Elm Tree iii. 351 With sudden fear her wormy quest The Thrush abruptly quits.

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单词	wormy
释义	wormyadj. Brit. /ˈwəːmi/, U.S. /ˈwərmi/ Etymology: < worm n. + -y suffix¹. Compare Middle High German wurmic, -ec, German wurmig, Dutch wormig. 1. a. Attacked, gnawed, or bored by worms or grubs; worm-eaten. ΘΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > by loss of material or wasted > worm-eaten wormetec1000 worm-fret1430 wormyc1430 worm-eatena1475 worm-eat1597 vermiculated1623 wormed1846 c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) ii. cxxxiii. 128 I am a wormy wilowh; who so leneth to me is lost. 1562 G. Legh Accedens of Armory (1568) 120 b Studiously keping those monuments from wormie wemes. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vereux, wormie, full of wormes. 1708 J. Ozell tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin 54 The wormy Boards, by Time's corroding Spight disjoin'd. 1756 Mrs. Calderwood's Journey in Coltness Coll. (1842) 213 All the fruit in that country is very wormy, and some of the finest nuts had a great worm in the kirnall. 1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 69 And thou,—go burn thy wormy pages. 1848 C. Dickens Dombey & Son lvii. 573 An old brown, panelled, dusty vestry,..where the wormy registers diffuse a smell like faded snuff. 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 176 We have picked nearly every apple (wormy or otherwise). in extended use.1833 in New Statist. Acct. Scotl. (1845) III. 41 [Selkirk] The..herbage on the hills..was destroyed by a caterpillar in 1762, long called the wormy year. b. figurative. = worm-eaten adj. 3. ΘΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > worse > [adjective] > declining or deteriorating > in character or quality infecta1387 palledc1390 rustyc1390 degeneratea1513 withered1561 bastardlike1577 degenerated1581 degenerous1600 bastardized1611 degenerating1611 wormy1611 autumnal1616 blood-shrunk1634 degenered1637 reduced1689 lowered1730 eviscerated1858 labefact1874 disbloomed- the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated > of persons, views, etc. old-fashioned1596 musty1603 mildewed1605 fusty1609 wormy1611 frumpy1746 fossila1770 arriéré1814 has-been1819 Rip Van Winkleish1829 frumpish1847 archaistic1850 fogey1852 fogeyish1852 old fogeyish1853 rusty-fusty1864 mossbacked1876 dead-handed1928 Victorian1934 unhep1939 unhip1939 dinosaurian1943 square1946 dinosaur-like1947 dinosauric1977 analogue1993 1611 L. Lewknor in T. Coryate Crudities sig. c5^v Old wormy age that in thy mustie writs Of former fooles records the present wits. 1908 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 3rd vii. viii. 343 Europe's wormy dynasties rerobe Themselves in their old gilt. c. Architecture. = vermiculated adj. 1c. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [adjective] > resembling tracks made by worms vermiculated1788 wormy1823 1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 482 In different parts of the Louvre, wormy or vermiculated rustics are to be found. 2. Of the body, its parts and secretions: Infested or affected with worms, itch-mites, etc. Of fish: Lousy (U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorders of bowels or intestines > [adjective] > infestation by parasites wormy1599 vermified1666 hydatid1826 vermigerous1853 helminthous1854 trichinous1857 verminous1860 trichiniferous1864 trichinatous1870 trichinosed1881 filarious1883 filariated1884 trichinotic1889 onchocercotic1918 schistosomial1934 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 362/1 An oyntment for the Wormye, and itchinge Handes. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. xlii. 255 The iuice thereof dropped into wormie eares, doth kill the wormes that is in them. 1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines ii. viii. 105 What would..he presage by such a wormie vrine? 1679 T. Trapham Disc. Health Jamaica 103 Children the chief subjects of Worms and wormy Slime. 1707 H. Sloane Voy. Islands I. 140 It is used by Chirurgeons in putrid and wormy ulcers. 1766 Compl. Farmer at Ascarides The horses that breed ascarides are, above all others, subject to slime and wormy matter. 1860 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 974/2 The poor of Scotland..are not more wormy than the better fed poor of England. 1884 Springfield (Mass.) Wheelmen's Gaz. Nov. 110/3 The stream was fairly alive with trout but the large ones were wormy. 3. Of earth, soil, the grave, etc.: Infested with worms, full of worms. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > infestation by noxious creatures > [adjective] > with worms wormy1600 vermiculate1605 vermicular1655 vermiculous?1691 vermiculose1727 the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [adjective] > consisting of > infested with wormy1600 vermiculous?1691 vermiculose1727 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream iii. ii. 385 Damned spirits all,..Already to their wormy beds are gone. View more context for this quotation 1631 W. Lisle Faire Æthiopian x. 176 The men of Sere, Who brought the King two silken robes to weare, Of daintie sleaue drawne from their wormie trees. 1673 J. Milton On Death Fair Infant v, in Poems (new ed.) 18 Yet can I not perswade me thou art dead..Or that thy beauties lie in wormie bed. 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 345 Loose wormey ground. 1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion iii. 108 Feelingly sweet is stillness after storm, Though under covert of the wormy ground! View more context for this quotation 1842 T. De Quincey Shakspeare in Encycl. Brit. XX. 187/1 The wormy grave brought into antagonism with the scenting of the early dawn. 1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance xvii. 176 Birds..busily scratched their food out of the wormy earth. in extended use.1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 73 Wherefore all this wormy circumstance? Why linger at the yawning tomb so long? 4. a. Resembling a worm; worm-like.Formerly in technical terms, esp. Anatomy; as wormy body [translating Latin corpus lumbricosum : see worm n. 11a] , the epididymis; wormy process = vermiform process (vermiform adj. 3b). ΘΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > series of curves > [adjective] > having many or winding curves tortivous14.. anfractuous?a1425 tortuous1426 tortuea1500 snakish1532 winding1538 wormy1545 boughty1570 wriggled1572 sinuous1578 serpent-likea1586 crankled1594 serpent1597 snaky1600 flexuous1605 snaking1605 cringle-crangle1606 voluminous1611 serpenting?1614 serpentine1615 curvy1623 serpentizing1628 worming1631 lacinious1648 anguineous1656 anguine1657 anfractuose1680 twisting1683 vermicular1712 worm-like1721 flexuose1727 meandering1748 crinkum-crankum1766 serpentiform1777 serpentining1799 anguiform1800 ophite1828 tortuose1829 cranky1836 sinuose1836 serpentile1857 twisty1857 sinuated1859 vermiculatea1864 twinyc1868 tortive1880 crinkle-crankle1881 serpentinous1882 quirky1890 twistical1890 waggly1894 wriggly1901 squiggly1902 wiggly1903 contortionate1911 wig-waggy1914 curvaceous1965 1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. sig. G.iiii^v When this foresayd woormy body hath attaynyd to y^e myddell regyon..of the stoone, and is no more..thicke wrethyd, but playn, smoth, and round. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 477 The anterior and posterior processes of the braine, called vermi-formes or the wormy processes. 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. vi. xxix. 222 The 4. other [muscles of the hand] are called, by reason of their figure, the Lumbrici or wormy muscles. a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) 60 Pliny..calls it Coccus Scolecius, or the Wormy Berry. 1856 E. B. Browning Aurora Leigh i. 8 A weary, wormy darkness, spurred i' the flank With flame, that it should eat and end itself Like some tormented scorpion.1876 W. Morris tr. Virgil Æneids vii. 351 The dreadful wormy thing Seemed the wrought gold about her neck [L. fit tortile collo aurum ingens coluber].1888 Harper's Mag. Aug. 327 With fleshy, brilliant, long, wormy feelers instead of fins.1895 B. M. Croker Village Tales (1896) 152 Lumps of sticky cocoanut and deliciously long, wormy native sweets. b. figurative. Grovelling; earthy; crooked, tortuous. ΘΠ the mind > emotion > humility > servility > [adjective] go-by-ground?a1300 thrall1398 abjectc1430 manly?c1430 servicious1440 serviceable1483 servile1537 tame1563 slavish1565 demiss1572 submissive1572 cringing1579 fawning1585 incrouching?1593 vassal1594 scraping1599 obsequious1602 spaniel1606 observing1609 deprostrate1610 supplea1616 vernile1623 shrugging1629 wormy1640 compliable1641 thrall-like1641 obeisant1642 inservient1646 truckling1656 cringeling1693 benecking1705 subservient1714 footman-like1776 bingeing1805 sidling1821 toadying1863 crawlsome1904 toadyish1909 crawling1941 ass-kissing1942 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > condition of being held in contempt > [adjective] > contemptible unworthc893 unwrastc893 littleOE narrow-hearteda1200 wretcha1200 unworthya1240 wretchedc1250 un-i-wrastc1275 bad1276 lechera1300 feeblea1325 despisablea1340 villain1340 contemptiblec1384 lousyc1386 caitiff1393 brothelyc1400 roinousa1425 poor1425 sevenpennyc1475 nasty1477 peakish1519 filthy1533 despectuous1541 beggary1542 scald1542 shitten?1545 disdainfula1547 contemptuous1549 despicable1553 skit-brained?1553 contemniblea1555 vile1560 sluttish1561 queer1567 scornful1570 scallardc1575 tinkerly?1576 worthless1576 beggarly?1577 paltry1578 halfpenny1579 dog bolt1580 pitiful1582 sneaking1582 triobolar1585 wormisha1586 baddy1586 dudgeon1592 measled1596 packstaff1598 roguey1598 roguish1601 contemptful1608 grovelling1608 lightly1608 disdainable1611 purulent1611 snotty-nose1622 vilipendious1630 cittern-headed1638 wormy1640 pissabed1643 triobolary1644 disparageable1648 blue-bellied1652 unestimable1656 scullion1658 piteous1667 dirty1670 shabbed1674 shabby1679 snotty1681 snotty-nosed1682 mucky1683 bollocky1694 scoundrel1700 scaldeda1704 sneaking1703 ficulnean1716 unsolid1731 pitiable1753 scrubby1754 inimitable1798 scrubbish1798 worm-likea1807 small1824 lowlife1827 ketty1828 skunkish1831 yellow-bellied1833 scaly1843 cockroachya1845 wutless1853 nigger1859 trashy1862 low-down1872 cruddy1877 shitty1879 tinhorn1886 blithering1889 motherfucking1890 snidey1890 pilgarlicky1894 shitass1895 shoddy1918 yah boo1921 bitching1929 shit-faced1932 turdish1936 fricking1937 jerk-off1937 chickenshit1940 sheg-up1941 snot-nosed1941 jerky1944 mother-loving1948 scroungy1948 fecking1952 pissant1952 shit-kicking1953 shit-eating1956 bumboclaat1957 rassclaat1957 shit-headed1959 farkakte1960 shithouse1966 daggy1967 dipshit1968 scuzzy1969 bloodclaat1971 bitch ass1972 wanky1972 streelish1974 twatty1975 twattish1976 dweeby1988 douchey1991 wank1991 cockish1996 the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [adjective] > material or not spiritual > merely material worldlyOE earthlyOE fleshlyc1175 materialc1390 carnal1483 charnel1483 earthen1538 world-like1577 earthy1594 materious1611 cloddy1634 wormy1640 unangelicala1711 descendental1847 unangelic1890 the world > space > direction > [adjective] > bending or winding winding1555 straying1585 crankling1596 meandrian1608 tortive1609 meandered1612 serpentine1615 snailing1615 meandering1617 meandrous1639 meandric1658 wandering1667 wimpling1721 spiral1796 circumvolutory1834 wormy1869 twistering1872 twistified1872 twistical1890 1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xxxvii. 459 Hereby wee are brought to a Just Contempt of sordid and wormie Affections. 1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xxxviii. 499 To be of a creeping and wormy disposition,..to raise the Soule unto no higher Contemplations, than Base and Worldly. 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 353 I have constantly considered the light of the Sun married as a husband to the Splendour of the Glo-worm;..one Heavenly and constant; but the other wormy or corruptible. 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. vii. 33 That is the fruit of all such wormy ways, The indirect, the unapproved of God: You cannot find their author's end and aim. 5. Of or pertaining to worms. poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > division Vermes > [adjective] vermicular1713 helminthic1755 wormy1801 vermiculous1813 vermiform1835 vermian1878 vermean1905 1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. ix. 164 Next with naked hand She plucked the boughs of the manchineel. Then of the wormy wax she took, That from the perforated tree forced out, Bewrayed its insect-parent's work within. 1842 T. Hood Elm Tree iii. 351 With sudden fear her wormy quest The Thrush abruptly quits. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.c1430
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