The Collaborative Dictionary

Wormy \Worm"y\, a. [Compar. Wormier; superl. Wormiest.] [1913 Webster]

Containing a worm; abounding with worms. "Wormy beds." --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Like or pertaining to a worm; earthy; groveling. [1913 Webster]

Word Net

wormy adj

1 eaten (or as if eaten) by worms [syn: vermiculate, worm-eaten]

2 totally submissive [syn: cringing, groveling, grovelling, wormlike] [also: wormiest, wormier]

Moby Thesaurus

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

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɜː(r)mi

Adjective

1. of or like a worm or worms
2. infested with worms

Synonyms

• (of or like a worm): vermian, vermicular (in shape), vermiform (in shape)
• (infested with worms): worm-eaten, wormed

Derived terms

• wormily
• worminess

Wormy is the name of a number of unrelated comic and cartoon characters, including:

• Wormy, a dragon, title character of a comic by David A. Trampier that appeared in Dragon magazine in the 1970s and 1980s
• Wormy, a caterpillar-cum-butterfly, title character of an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants
• Wormy, a worm character from the comic book Owly by Andy Runton
• Wormy Marrons, a villain from the comic strip Dick Tracy, introduced in 1949
• Uncle Wormy, an imaginary friend in the cartoon series Arthur