† worm-eatadj.
Obsolete.
= worm-eaten adj., literal and figurative.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders associated with age > [adjective] > old age
worm-eatenc1575
worm-eat1597
involuted1898
involutional1968
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
the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated
moth-frettenOE
antiquate?a1425
antique?1532
rusty1549
moth-eaten1551
musty1575
worm-eatenc1575
overyear1584
out of date1589
old-fashioned1592
out of date1592
worm-eat1597
old-fashion1599
ancient1601
outdated1616
out-of-fashion1623
over-aged1623
superannuateda1634
thorough-old1639
overdateda1641
trunk-hosea1643
antiquitated1645
antiquated1654
out-of-fashioned1671
unmodern1731
of the old school1749
auld-farrant1750
old-fangled1764
fossila1770
fogram1772
passé1775
unmodernized1775
oxidated1791
moss-covered1792
square-toeda1797
old-fashionable1807
pigtail1817
behind the times1826
slow1827
fossilized1828
rococo1836
antiquish1838
old-timey1850
out of season1850
moss-grown1851
old style1858
antiqued1859
pigtaily1859
prehistoric1859
backdated1862
played1864
fossiled1866
bygone1869
mossy-backed1870
old-worldly1878
past-time1889
outmoded1896
dated1900
brontosaurian1909
antiquey1926
horse-and-buggy1926
vintage1928
Neolithic1934
time-warped1938
demoded1941
steam age1941
hairy1946
old school1946
rinky-dink1946
time warp1954
Palaeolithic1957
retardataire1958
throwback1968
wally1969
antwacky1975
1597 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 1st 3 Bks. i. iv. 10 Some brauer braine in high Heroick rimes Compileth worm-eate stories of olde tymes.
1601 2nd Pt. Returne from Pernassus iv. iii. 1936 Spending the marrow of their flowring age, In fruitelesse poring on some worme eate leafe.
1607 R. Turner Nosce Te sig. E3 This worme-eate Churle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
† worm-eatv.
Obsolete.
1. transitive. To eat into by, or as by, worms.
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > cause bad condition in [verb (transitive)] > eat away > by worms
worm-eat1598
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Tarmare, to mothe-eate or worme-eate.
1653 E. Chisenhale Catholike Hist. 109 Should the gnawing rusty teeth of time worm-eat and rase all his Records.
1663 R. Head Hic et Ubique ii. i. 20 Let 'em rot with their cares And worldly affairs, And worm-eat their souls with their treasures.
a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) II. iv. x. 331 Leave off these vanities, which worm-eat your brain.
2. intransitive. To undergo being worm-eaten.
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > deteriorate in condition [verb (intransitive)] > become worm-eaten
beworm1604
vermiculate1633
worm-eata1642
a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 131 That they bee reade-deale, which are allmost as durable as oake, and will not worme-eate soe soone as white deale.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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