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US
/ˈbʊˌkwɝm/
]
[ UK /bˈʊkwɜːm/ ]
[ UK /bˈʊkwɜːm/ ]
NOUN
- a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit
- someone who spends a great deal of time reading
How To Use bookworm In A Sentence
- I was an artsy-craftsy bookworm; I never really knew what to do with dolls anyway other than change their outfits. Colleen Kane: Cabbage Patch Fever: 25 Years After
- No wonder, well-known authorss called the Galle festival as 'gathering of the bookworms' The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
- After all, I appeared to be a bookworm sort of fellow trying to come across as tough.
- The Kartell bookworm is my favourite, and is actually something I can afford! 2009 January « Items of Interest
- Plus, 'awful swotter' is much better than the new 'bookworm'. Times, Sunday Times
- Young bookworms presented their favourite librarian with farewell cards and a song to mark her retirement.
- But, nevertheless, the happenstance still makes me feel that fate likes to smile every so often upon the introverted bookworms of the world.
- New Zealanders certainly love to read and this gave everyone a wonderful opportunity to catch up on the latest book releases - a chance not to be missed by bookworms.
- The aim is to help encourage more people of all ages to read more books, by proving that reading isn't only for bookworms!
- For those bookworms, there is a library with a vast collection.
