Synonyms for bookworm

Grammar : Noun

Spell : boo k-wurm

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbʊkˌwɜrm

Définition of bookworm

Origin : 1590s (of people), 1855 of insects or maggots; there is no single species known by this name, which is applied to the anolium beetle, silverfishes, and book lice. See book (n.) + worm (n.).

noun booklover

Example sentences :

Because she has to live with old Vedder who is nothing but a bookworm.
Extract from : « An Orkney Maid » by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

He was something of a bookworm at college, I believe, and has developed a taste for literature.
Extract from : « Against Odds » by Lawrence L. Lynch

For the rest, he was a bookworm and revelled in intellectual pursuits.
Extract from : « A Little Girl in Old Salem » by Amanda Minnie Douglas

The Bookworm's an uninteresting grub, Whether he's all alone or in a club.
Extract from : « A Phenomenal Fauna » by Carolyn Wells

This old fellow is Mac, the bookworm, called Worm for short.
Extract from : « Eight Cousins » by Louisa M. Alcott

And, bookworm as you are, I'll warrant she'll warm your sluggish blood for you.
Extract from : « The Light of Scarthey » by Egerton Castle

He shrugs his shoulders; he is no bookworm; he wants autographs alone.
Extract from : « The Book-Collector » by William Carew Hazlitt

I suppose I was meant for a bookworm, and yet I didn't like school.
Extract from : « Miss Grantley's Girls » by Thomas Archer

While she should read well and wisely, the girl should not turn into a bookworm.
Extract from : « The Canadian Girl at Work » by Marjory MacMurchy

I became too mere a bookworm in India, and on my voyage home.
Extract from : « Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson » by Thomas Babington Macaulay

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