bookworm
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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
Or, because I’m such a freaking bookworm, I go home and sit on my big, comfy couch and just read some more until I fall asleep.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026
As a child, she was a "bookworm" who loved attending acting classes and workshops.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2024
They hoped it would be a way to spread the organic bookworm spirit they’d instilled in their five children while dialing up representation for readers who had trouble finding characters who looked like them.
From New York Times ● Apr. 1, 2024
She doesn’t say what she’d like you to get the Ph.D. in, but I assume Math rather than Greek, you dirty little bookworm.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
But unless your club is extraordinarily broad-minded, you might cause considerable consternation by exposing fellow bookworms to Mr. Warren-Smith’s gleeful, demented diversions.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026
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
When a cyberattack knocked the British Library out of commission in October of last year, a nation’s researchers, scholars, students, and bookworms were left high and dry.
From Slate ● Jan. 19, 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
