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bookworm

[book-wurm] / ˈbʊkˌwɜrm /


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He became a self-proclaimed "bookworm", reading Albert Camus, Toni Morrison, and Romain Gary, as well as fellow Haitian writers such as Jacques Roumain and James Noel.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

For his advocacy of English prose in the sweet and easy styles of Joseph Addison and Jonathan Swift, the Scots bookworm has been heralded as “a founder of the study of English in universities.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

When assistant head teacher Rebecca Howell, a bookworm herself, walks into a classroom, a child will always bring her a book and ask her to read it.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025

Just as when he’s poring over the playbook, the bearded bookworm reads with pen in hand or ready to note something on his phone.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2025

What were they to him, Silvertongue and his daughter, the boy, the bookworm, and the woman who was another man’s wife once more?

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

Opening your own book shop might be a lofty daydream for some bookworms looking to escape their 9-5, but more and more people are making it a reality.

From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2026

So I always imagined my own children would similarly be bookworms and geeks.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2025

Flour-based glues come from the insides of wheat grains and include gluten — which bookworms love as much as the rest of us.

From Salon ● May 7, 2024

Flour glues are made from the insides of wheat grains, which includes the gluten that's so delicious to bookworms and microorganisms alike.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 25, 2024

Its brown icing was as full of holes as the binding of a book when bookworms have been gnawing at it for years.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke


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