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bookworm, popular name for the larvae of several beetles that bore through books, e.g., the drugstore, spider, and deathwatch beetles. bookworm any of various small insects that feed on the binding paste of books, esp the book louse How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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In this chair, from one year's end to another, sat that prodigious bookworm, Cotton Mather, sometimes devouring a great book, and sometimes scribbling one as big. This old fellow is Mac, the bookworm, called Worm for short. Johnson's father was a bookworm, like his son, rather than a tradesman. |
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