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Synonyms for bookworm


Grammar : Noun
Spell : boo k-wurm
Phonetic Transcription : ˈbʊkˌwɜrm



Définition of bookworm

Origin :
  • 1590s (of people), 1855 of insects or maggots; there is no single species known by this name, which is applied to the anolium beetle, silverfishes, and book lice. See book (n.) + worm (n.).
  • noun booklover
Example sentences :
  • Because she has to live with old Vedder who is nothing but a bookworm.
  • Extract from : « An Orkney Maid » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
  • He was something of a bookworm at college, I believe, and has developed a taste for literature.
  • Extract from : « Against Odds » by Lawrence L. Lynch
  • For the rest, he was a bookworm and revelled in intellectual pursuits.
  • Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old Salem » by Amanda Minnie Douglas
  • The Bookworm's an uninteresting grub, Whether he's all alone or in a club.
  • Extract from : « A Phenomenal Fauna » by Carolyn Wells
  • This old fellow is Mac, the bookworm, called Worm for short.
  • Extract from : « Eight Cousins » by Louisa M. Alcott
  • And, bookworm as you are, I'll warrant she'll warm your sluggish blood for you.
  • Extract from : « The Light of Scarthey » by Egerton Castle
  • He shrugs his shoulders; he is no bookworm; he wants autographs alone.
  • Extract from : « The Book-Collector » by William Carew Hazlitt
  • I suppose I was meant for a bookworm, and yet I didn't like school.
  • Extract from : « Miss Grantley's Girls » by Thomas Archer
  • While she should read well and wisely, the girl should not turn into a bookworm.
  • Extract from : « The Canadian Girl at Work » by Marjory MacMurchy
  • I became too mere a bookworm in India, and on my voyage home.
  • Extract from : « Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson » by Thomas Babington Macaulay

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