The Oxford English Dictionary prioritizes the same definition, but gets to insects in its second definition, commenting thereon “A number of insects damage books in various ways, but the only ones that actually bore through the paper are the larvae of wood-boring beetles. I find that Merriam-Webster has one definition of the term: “a person unusually devoted to reading and study”.
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Such bookworms are of course served by lots of bookstores rejoicing in the same name. Synonyms for Bookworm Avid reader and bookworm are semantically related. We live in a world where any child who reads more than two or three books runs the risk of being categorized as a bookworm. Bookworm noun - Someone who spends a great deal of time reading. Johnson wrote his Ramblers to make a Dictionary necessary, and afterwards compiled his Dictionary to explain his. I think bookworm may be unusual in being a word more frequently met with in its metaphorical usage than in its base meaning.
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a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning. Sounds like a unlikely scenario though: a mite metamorphosing into a lesser grain borer is, when compared to caterpillar/butterfly, a bit, well, boring. What is the definition of the word BOOKWORM Here is a list of definitions for bookworm. I read recently that Eric Carle apparently originally wanted his Hungry Caterpillar to be a hungry bookworm. A student closely attached to books or addicted to study a reader without appreciation. Rottweilers are intelligent, placid dogs, and are easy to train - and it’s important to train a dog that big who will control you on the street if not trained to answer your command - so when she was told not to eat books, she changed her diet forthwith. Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books.
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Maybe I really didn’t have the misfortune to host a bookworm, but I did once own a book dog, a Rottweiler who as a puppy developed a selective taste for bookbindings. always loved Danny Kaye’s Hans Christian Andersen. And who’d have imagined there was a creature called the museum beetle, or worse the drugstore beetle or even the cigarette beetle? Silverfish and cockroaches can also become avid devourers of books. But Wikipedia gives us a distressingly long list of contenders for the “bookworm” title, and they have the pictures to back it up. Well, should I tempt providence by claiming never to have detected the action of bookworms in any of the many, many books I have been surrounded with all my life? Indeed I had wondered if it wasn’t all really an old-wife’s tale based on a metaphor.