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bookworm::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | pedant, scholastic |
| Type of | bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student |
| Has types | purist |
bookworm::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | reader |
Examples of bookworm
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He tutored buddies in his segregated unit and earned a reputation as a bookworm.
From the post-gazette.com
The site is free, and hundreds of bookworm lonely-hearts have already signed up.
From the economist.com
As a child he was a shy bookworm embarrassed by his family's real estate fortune.
From the time.com
She's no Hogwarts bookworm any more, she's got curves and is showing them off.
From the thesun.co.uk
A fashion photographer turns a Greenwich Village bookworm into a Paris cover girl.
From the post-gazette.com
When this man gets going, he's more like a Harlem preacher than a Boston bookworm.
From the time.com
And what is the bookworm larvae population currently residing in those books?
From the economist.com
She was a bookworm, but she always had a great sense of style and fashion.
From the democratandchronicle.com
Your child will learn to read eventually and may even grow into a bookworm.
From the cnn.com
- Pedant: a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
- Someone who spends a great deal of time reading
- Bibliophilia or bibliophilism is the love of books. Accordingly a bibliophile is an individual who loves books. More commonly referred to as a bookworm, the individual loves books for their content, or otherwise loves reading. ...
- This is a list of recurring characters from the cartoon series Tiny Toon Adventures, an American animated television series which aired from 1990 to 1995. ...
- Bookworm was the eponymous fictional character in a comic strip in the British comic, Whoopee!. It first appeared in the early 1980s, and survived Whoopee!'s merger with Whizzer and Chips in 1985, becoming a Chip-ite. ...
- Bookworm is a popular generalization for any insect which supposedly bores through books.
- Bookworm (or Bespelled) is a word-forming computer puzzle game by PopCap Games. From a grid of available letters, players connect letters to form words. As words are formed, they are removed from the grid and the remaining letters collapse to fill the available space. ...
- Any of various insects that infest books; An avid book reader
- An organism, sometimes a literal worm, which harms books by feeding on their binding or leaves. Also a term for a person devoted to books.
