Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A worm or an insect larva that bores into wood.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A worm, grub, or larva that is bred in wood.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) a larva that bores in wood; a wood borer.
- n. (Zoöl.) See Wood worm, under wood.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a larva of a woodborer
Examples
“There were still relics like this lurking in farm buildings when I started out on my agricultural life: I recall finding a woodworm-infected patten lying in the manger of a stable a week or so after the last draught horse had been put to sleep.”
“They own helicopters and submarines and they can afford to spread the woodworm of corruption through poor countries, right to the top.”
Johann Hari: Obama Must End the War on Drugs -- or Mexico and Afghanistan Will Collapse
“And his pegleg got woodworm and broke into three.”
“The presence of sap will attract woodworm, which love its sweetness, so you must cut your hazel while the sap is sunk for the winter.”
“I was on Guido when he blogged about the injuries and the nutters came out of the panelling like .303 woodworm.”
“Wormwood buttering rack, Edwardian rat-hair doormat, woodworm in French fluting and the set of wooden birthing stirrups ...... are not necessarily an essential accompaniment to the modern bric a brac home, to which he adds:”
“Leaning at the main door of the farm you saw behind you the coming of the woodworm.”
“The amount of wildlife in the house was evident; bright orange sawdust outlined the furniture, indicating that the chairs are only staying upright because the woodworm are holding hands.”
“The woodworm were too widespread; to get rid of them I'd have needed a fleet of light aircraft to spray the house with Agent Orange – or whatever they use these days.”
“Pingback by DIY Fancy Dress ideas!! .. and a PS on woodworm | hilpers — January 18, 2009 @ 2: 24 pm”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘woodworm’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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beetles
beetles
anobiid, beetle, bookworm, borer, bruchid, buprestid, cadelle, canegrub, cantharid, cantharis, carabid, chafer and 117 more...
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Amalgamations
Words that have been smashed together.
keystone, touchstone, footprint, thunderhead, seesaw, textbook, leftovers, watchword, afterbirth, fieldwork, outcast, statesman and 148 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Monovocalics
Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one wit...
syzygy, mirific, cumulus, homolog, monocot, bedewed, jezebel, referee, bikini, minikin, locomotor, terebenthene and 2359 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for woodworm.
sionnach I wonder if woodworm hold up well to tippling wormwood. Nov 29, 2007
reesetee How can I be Jove if I'm already Gandhi? Palooka? Some help here!
Signed, pharaoh moohlah Nov 27, 2007
uselessness Jove. Minerva sprang from Jove. Reesetee is Jove. ;-) Nov 27, 2007
reesetee Maybe you can use it to replace tedium. Just a thought. Nov 27, 2007
chained_bear Great. I have no idea how to list that. Nov 27, 2007
reesetee You didn't spring Minerva-like from me! Nov 27, 2007
grasshopper Master SoG, four days beyond a fortnight past, I sprang Minerva-like from the mind of reesetee on the pages of paua, abetted by uselessness and mollusque. Nov 27, 2007
sonofgroucho "You have done well, grasshopper!" as Master Po used to say.
However, I haven't a clue what you are talking about! Nov 25, 2007
grasshopper Master SoG, this is precisely the weakness that the wordworm and I are exploiting to evade virus and worm detectors. She has proved to be quite cunning, removing the "c" from covert to escape from under containment on the c list. She is now in ninja training.
Under guise of woodworm, she infiltrated the Google lexicon, and inserted detartrated in their lookup dictionary. If you enter "detartrat", Google now asks "Did you mean: detartrated". She also entered the Scriptorium at OED headquarters and found a citation for demidiate, from The Entomological Dictionary of 1913, where it is defined as "half-round".
Are there other missions you wish us to undertake? Nov 25, 2007
sonofgroucho Definitely not one for Sog's Ark! Nov 25, 2007