Bookwormy

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Like a bookworm; studious.

    "He's a teacher or something, one of them bookwormy men, whose head never pays no attention to what the rest of him is doing."

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Example

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"He's a teacher or something, one of them bookwormy men, whose head never pays no attention to what the rest of him is doing."

Etymology

From bookworm + -y.

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