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Meanings of bookworm in English
A person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit.
Usage of bookworm in English
1
I found it in the library, of course, bookworm that I am.
2
For the rest, he was a bookworm and revelled in intellectual pursuits.
3
Magistra, we are facing a bookworm infection unlike any I have known.
4
Old bookworm Fraser does not leave the 'Folly' once in six months.
5
On the gate, the two guards were discussing an ongoing bookworm infection.
6
He did not think much of the commonwealth attorney, a useless bookworm.
7
Weiming, the Moller doorman I just told you about, is another bookworm.
8
His brother hated him for being a bookworm & tormented him constantly.
9
A lifelong bookworm, I've never enjoyed a gay novel in my life.
10
Johnson's father was a bookworm, like his son, rather than a tradesman.
11
The libraries need every free author to contain the bookworm infection.
12
There is little in the face to suggest the scholar or the bookworm.
13
By chance, a disspell destroyed most of this bookworm's executive text.
14
Which, when you think of it, is pretty much everything a bookworm needs.
15
He was a Hebrew and Greek scholar, hut certainly no bookworm.
16
The bookworm seemed to have found his element among Laranya's lot.
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