wormish

English

Etymology

From worm +‎ -ish.

Adjective

wormish (comparative more wormish, superlative most wormish)

1. Like a worm.
   • 1917?, Edwin L. Sabin, How Are You Feeling Now? (page 70)

     He has scarcely time wishfully to choose the prettiest one of the nurses who look curiously down from the windows above when he glides, still wormish, underneath a portcullis, which clangs behind him like the clang of doom, and the elevator slowly ascends.

   • 1988, David Quammen, The Flight of the Iguana:

     Among his [Darwin's] typically methodical observations of wormish habits was the following: "Worms do not possess any sense of hearing. They took not the least notice of the shrill notes from a metal whistle, which was repeatedly sounded near them […]

Synonyms

• wormy