[syn: cringing, groveling, grovelling, wormlike, wormy]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Wormy \Worm"y\, a. [Compar. Wormier; superl. Wormiest.]
[1913 Webster]
1. Containing a worm; abounding with worms. "Wormy beds."
--Shak.
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2. Like or pertaining to a worm; earthy; groveling.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
wormy
adj 1: infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms [syn:
vermiculate, worm-eaten, wormy]
2: totally submissive [syn: cringing, groveling,
grovelling, wormlike, wormy]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "wormy":
barfy, beset, blasted, blighted, blown, crappy, despoiled,
disgusting, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, flyblown, foul,
frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, fusty, gloppy, grubby, gunky, icky,
infested, lousy, maggoty, malodorous, mephitic, mildewed,
moldering, moldy, moth-eaten, mucky, musty, nasty, nauseating,
odious, ordurous, pedicular, pediculous, plagued, puky, putrid,
rank, ratty, ravaged, repulsive, rotten, scabby, scummy, scurfy,
shitty, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, smutted,
smutty, sposhy, teeming, vermiform, vile, vomity, weevily,
worm-eaten, wormlike, yecchy