There is a woodworm in the wood.
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Woodworm
Synonyms for "woodworm" (3 found)
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36 translations across 23 languages.
Ancient Greek
2 entries- θρῑ́ψ noun (larvae that bore into wood)
- ἴ̄ψ noun (larvae that bore into wood)
Bulgarian
1 entries- дървояд noun (larvae that bore into wood)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 木蛀蟲 /木蛀虫 noun (larvae that bore into wood)
- 蛀蟲 /蛀虫 noun (larvae that bore into wood)
Classical Nahuatl
1 entries- cuauhocuilin noun (larvae that bore into wood)
Cornish
1 entries- pryv prenn noun (larvae that bore into wood)
Czech
1 entries- červotoč noun (larvae that bore into wood)
Dutch
1 entries- houtworm noun (larvae that bore into wood)
Finnish
1 entries- jumi noun (larvae that bore into wood)
Galician
4 entries- broca noun (larvae that bore into wood)
- caruncho noun (larvae that bore into wood)
- corta noun (larvae that bore into wood)
- couza noun (larvae that bore into wood)
German
1 entries- Holzwurm noun (larvae that bore into wood)
Hungarian
1 entries- szú noun (larvae that bore into wood)
Italian
1 entries- tarlo noun (larvae that bore into wood)
Latin
2 entries- tarmes noun (larvae that bore into wood)
- terēdō noun (larvae that bore into wood)
Northern Mansi
1 entries- сӯр noun (larvae that bore into wood)
Old Czech
2 entries- dřěvotoč noun (larvae that bore into wood)
- črvotoč noun (larvae that bore into wood)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- آغاج قوردی noun (larvae that bore into wood)
Polish
1 entries- kornik noun (larvae that bore into wood)
Russian
1 entries- точи́льщик noun (larvae that bore into wood)
Sicilian
2 entries- cagnolu noun (larvae that bore into wood)
- càmula noun (larvae that bore into wood)
Spanish
3 entries- carcoma noun (larvae that bore into wood)
- polilla noun (larvae that bore into wood)
- quera noun (larvae that bore into wood)
Turkish
1 entries- ağaç kurdu noun (larvae that bore into wood)
Welsh
1 entries- pryf pren noun (larvae that bore into wood)
Yakut
1 entries- мас үөнэ noun (larvae that bore into wood)
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1599, Simon Harward, “A Displaying of the wilfull deuises of wicked and vaine worldlings” in Three Sermons, London: Richard Johns, […] Chrisostome doth compaire enuie to the wood worm which though it doe breede in the tymber, yet it doth consume & waste the tymber, as enuie springing of the heart doth putrifie and vtterly eat vp the heart.
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1872, Robert Louis Stevenson, letter to Mrs. Thomas Stevenson dated July 29, 1872, in Sidney Colvin (editor), The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, New York: Scribner, 1917, Volume I, p. 45, There was only one contretemps during the whole interview—the arrival of another visitor, in the shape (surely) the last of God’s creatures, a wood-worm of the most unnatural and hideous appearance, with one great striped horn stucking out of his nose like a boltsprit. If there are many wood-worms in Germany, I shall come home.
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New Alresford is constantly mispronounced, T-shaped, honeycombed with cellars, packed with antique shops, riddled with woodworm, surrounded by watercress. The name - which means 'ford by the alders' - is pronounced 'Allsford'; and no one ever uses 'New', though they do call the adjoining village Old Alresford.
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