bookworm
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈbʊkˌwɜrm/
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ratón de biblioteca
- And devote themselves instead to an inspiring program of self-improvement-- a real feast for bookworms.
And that means they're a bookworm or maybe even a little pedantic.
- And that means they're a bookworm or maybe even a little pedantic.
- I'd seen quite a few people do it on Pinterest and I think if you have a little bookworm, it's quite fun thing to do for Advent.
- He also says I grew into a bookworm and read everything that fell into my hands, the great national poems, novels, Popular Science books.
- And then I became a bookworm and I read so much that my my written vocabulary increased faster than my spoken vocabulary.
- Are you just a very smart, intellectual fucking bookworm?
- I was like this preppy student council, kind of like a little bit nerdy, like bookworm type vibe.
- What if your neighbor said, you know, he's a bookworm and he thinks he's a Luddite and he thinks that movies are evil?
- So I tend to think that he's a dude and he's he's smart if he's a bookworm by I mean the idiom means that the guy's whoever's a bookworm is like really smart.
- But it's like I am a guy that that is the bookworm who knows things but doesn't necessarily know how to isn't the action guy.
Examples
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My brother is a true bookworm; he can finish a thick book in just a few days.
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Don't worry about Karl, he's just a bookworm.
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There was this one guy in his unit real different to him, an intellectual, real bookworm, and over time, he became the boy's best friend.
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And then I became a bookworm and I read so much that my my written vocabulary increased faster than my spoken vocabulary.
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He's an academic, a bookworm.
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I didn't know you were a bookworm.
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One would think, though, you'd have a little more respect for the public library, you being such a bookworm.
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But you have to be more than a bookworm to get into Yale, right Bradley?
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A retired professor, writer, and bookworm, he did not deserve to have his mind peeled away.
Fiction book (1996) -
He also says I grew into a bookworm and read everything that fell into my hands, the great national poems, novels, Popular Science books.
Synonyms
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1.0
A person who enjoys looking at books and magazines for pleasure
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1.4
A person who loves reading and collecting books
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8.8
A person who loves books and collects them, often rare or old
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A person who regularly reads books for pleasure
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2.5
A person who likes reading and collecting books
A person who reads many books for pleasure
Antonyms
How Bookish
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bookworm combines book and worm and first meant a little 'insect' that 'ate' real books, so picture someone who 'eats' books by reading them. That is why a bookworm is a person who loves reading and spends a lot of time with books.