Wormish

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Like a worm.

    "He has scarcely time wishfully to choose the prettiest one of the nurses who look curiously down from the windows above when he glides, still wormish, underneath a portcullis, which clangs behind him like the clang of doom, and the elevator slowly ascends."

Synonyms

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wormywormy

Example

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"He has scarcely time wishfully to choose the prettiest one of the nurses who look curiously down from the windows above when he glides, still wormish, underneath a portcullis, which clangs behind him like the clang of doom, and the elevator slowly ascends."

Etymology

From worm + -ish.

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