Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

bookwormy

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: book-wormy
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Like a bookworm; studious.

Example Sentences

"He's a teacher or something, one of them bookwormy men, whose head never pays no attention to what the rest of him is doing."

Etymology

From bookworm + -y.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: bookworm

Inflected Forms

more bookwormy (comparative) most bookwormy (superlative)

Synonyms

bookwormish

Questions

What does bookwormy mean?: Like a bookworm; studious.
Where does bookwormy come from?: From bookworm + -y.

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