wormy
2
6.0
- adjective
- /ˈwɜrmi/
:
carcomido
- Sometimes he found piles of wormy apples he had to sort through to find the two he needed to paint.
- wormy apples
Examples
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The farmer knows that all that stands behind his house is a wormy old apple tree dropping Golden Delicious.
Fiction book (1999) -
The daughter came and went through the windowed door behind the counter to the back room, the bakery proper, where the rest of the family presumably labored, dusty to the wrists and chins, with wormy, salt-rising flour.
Fiction book (1992) -
I had to cull good apples from the wormy ones on the ground.
Fiction book (1997) -
If the apples are wormy, they still make good wine and high-protein apple sauce.
Blog text (32) -
The wormy ones get dried, and any fresh ones we plan on selling get halved to prove that they're perfect.
Blog text (32) -
I faithfully cut out the wormy bits and placed all the apples into a large stockpot, adding just enough water to avoid scorching them before they had a chance to sweat.
Blog text (8) -
The tops of his feet show wormy blue veins, and his shins are all chalky and crackled, as if he is standing up to his knees in old age.
Fiction book (1990) -
The wooden furniture had a wormy appearance after years of neglect.
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He decided to discard the wormy apples that had fallen from the tree.
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The wormy books on the shelf were a sign of the old library's lack of maintenance.
Synonyms
1
6.2
Full of holes that worms or insects make
Covered with small holes as if made by worms
Having small holes made by insects in wood
Antonyms
How Wormy
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word wormy comes from the simple animal worm, a small creature that burrows into and eats fruit or wood, so something wormy is 'full of' or 'damaged by' worms.