wormy

adjective

ˈwər-mē 

wormier; wormiest

1

: containing, abounding in, or infested with or as if with worms

wormy flour

a wormy dog

also : damaged by worms : worm-eaten

wormy timbers

2

: resembling or suggestive of a worm

Examples of wormy in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

As part of the restoration, a front door was crafted from a piece of wormy 19th-century chestnut without the use of glue, relying, instead, on pegs to hold it together. —Sophia Solano, Washington Post, 5 July 2024

To her surprise, the skinny, wormy creature scrunched up the lower half of its body, then leapt onto the forest floor. —Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 June 2024

Without it, drug resistance will spread undetected before control programs can adapt, leading to a wormier world for everyone. —Bradley Van Paridon, Scientific American, 1 June 2023

The common ancestor of us and ragworms--a wormy creature that lived 600 million years ago--not only had a brain, but had an ur-cortex. —Carl Zimmer, Discover Magazine, 3 Sep. 2010

Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for wormy

• diathermy
• taxidermy

Kids Definition

wormy

adjective

ˈwər-mē 

wormier; wormiest

1

: containing, swarming with, or damaged by worms

wormy soil

wormy flour

2

: resembling or suggestive of a worm

wormy creatures