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Worm

noun

Any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae.

A person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect. Synonyms: dirt ball, insect, louse.

A software program capable of reproducing itself that can spread from one computer to the next over a network.

Screw thread on a gear with the teeth of a worm wheel or rack.

verb

(past & past part. wormed; pres. part. worming)

To move in a twisting or contorted motion, (especially when struggling). Synonyms: squirm, twist, wrestle, wriggle, writhe. "The child tried to wriggle free from his aunt's embrace"

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"Worm" Quotes from Famous Books

... Scottish idiom. She was a bonnie, sweet, sonsie lass. In short, she, altogether unwittingly to herself, initiated me in that delicious passion, which, in spite of acid disappointment, gin-horse prudence, and book-worm philosophy, I hold to be the first of human joys here below! How she caught the contagion I cannot tell.... Indeed I did not know myself why I liked so much to loiter behind with her, when returning in the evening from our labours; why the tones of her voice ...

— Robert Burns • Principal Shairp

... little triangular cupboard of old worm-eaten walnut-wood fixed high in a corner of the room. Mrs. Lecount tried the door: ...

— No Name • Wilkie Collins

... is classed among the flycatchers, but is much more of a worm-eater, and has few of the traits or habits of the Muscicapa or the true Sylvia. He resembles somewhat the Warbling Vireo (Vireo gilvus), and the two birds are often confounded by careless observers. Both ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 • Various

... thy loathsome cant! Day-labourer, slave of toil and want! I hate thy babble vain and hollow. Thou art a worm, no child of day: Thy god is Profit—thou wouldst weigh By pounds the Belvidere Apollo. Gain—gain alone to thee is sweet. The marble is a god! ... what of it Thou count'st a pie-dish far above it— A dish wherein ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 • Various

... a feeling we're going to be pretty well acquainted before this is over. You see, Dave, I'm a nut on so-called 'time theories.' I've seen time compared to everything from an entity to a long, pink worm. But I disagree with them all, because they postulate the idea that time is constantly being manufactured. Such reasoning ...

— The Day Time Stopped Moving • Bradner Buckner

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