Worm

Noun

 * 1) A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum.
 * 2) A contemptible or devious being.
 * Don't try to run away, you little worm!
 * 1)  A self-replicating program that propagates widely through a network.
 * 2)  A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.
 * 3) Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
 * 4)  A dragon or mythological serpent.
 * 5) An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.
 * The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul! &mdash; Richard III, William Shakespeare

Verb

 * 1)  To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
 * We wormed our way through the underbrush.
 * 1)  To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
 * He wormed his way into the organization
 * 1)  To obtain information from someone through artful or devious means (usually used with out of)
 * 2) * 1913, Marie Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger
 * I've got a awk'ard job - to try and worm something out of the barmaid.
 * 1)  To fill in the contlines of a rope before parcelling and serving.
 * Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.
 * 1)  To deworm an animal.
 * 2)  To move with one's body dragging the ground.
 * 3) * 1919, William Joseph Long, How animals talk: and other pleasant studies of birds and beast‎
 * Inch by inch I wormed along the secret passageway, flat to the ground, not once raising my head, hardly daring to pull a full breath [...]
 * 1)  To work one's way by artful or devious means.

Adjectives for Worm
destitute; surfeited; unwholesome; obscene; invisible; lowly; humble; pollution-nourished; sluggish; nameless; voracious; resuscitated; venomous; reluctant; fiery; trodden; dead; crawling; lucky; worthless; velvet; vile.

Verbs for Worm
angle with—; attract—s; bait with—; crush —; dig for—; excavate for—; hook—; impale—; —s annihilate; —attacks; —bores; —burrows; —creeps; —gnaws; —infects; —pupates; —screws; —slithers; spirals; —symbolizes; —wriggles.

Adverbs for Worm
shabbily; uselessly; Irrecoverably; terribly; naturally; utterly; dingily; undesirably; utterly; pitifully; miserably; dreadfully.

Thesaurus
amble, angleworm, animal, armyworm, beast, blast, blight, blighter, bollworm, bookworm, cancer, canker, claudicate, contort, corkscrew, cotton worm, crawl, creep, crinkle, cur, dog, dogtrot, drag, drag along, drag out, dry rot, earthworm, earworm, edge in, fireworm, fishworm, foist, fungus, go dead slow, go on tiptoe, go slow, grovel, gumshoe, helminth, hobble, hound, hyena, idle, inch, inch along, inchworm, infiltrate, insect, intort, jog-trot, laze, leech, limp, looper, lowlife, meander, measuring worm, mildew, mold, mongrel, mosey, moth, moth and rust, mucker, must, nematode, night crawler, nightwalk, nightwalker, no-good, pad, pest, pig, poke, poke along, polecat, prowl, pussyfoot, reptile, rot, rust, saunter, scallop, scrabble, scramble, screw, serpent, serpentine, shuffle along, sidle, silkworm, skunk, slink, smut, snake, sneak, squiggle, squirm, stagger along, steal, steal along, stroll, swine, swirl, tapeworm, tippytoe, tiptoe, toddle, toddle along, totter along, traipse, turn, tussah, twine, twirl, twist, twist and turn, varmint, vermin, viper, waddle, walk, webworm, whelp, whirl, whorl, wiggle, wind, wireworm, woodworm, work in, worm along, wring, writhe

Etymology
, from wyrm: 'snake, dragon, worm', from  (compare  worm:,  Wurm:), from  'serpent, worm' (compare  gwraint 'worms in skin', Latin vermis: 'worm',  var̃mas 'insect, midge',  vermije 'insects; grasshoppers',  rrime 'rainworm', Ancient Greek rhómos 'woodworm'), possibly from  'to turn'. First computer usage by John Brunner in his 1975 book The Shockwave Rider.

Noun

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 * Arabic: دودة, دود
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 * Erzya: сукс (suks)
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 * Hebrew: תולע (tolah)
 * Hindi: कीड़ा
 * Hungarian:
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 * Irish:, cruimh,  cuiteog
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 虫, 虫螻
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 * Korean: 벌레
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 * Latvian: tārps
 * Lithuanian: kirmėlė ; kirminas (also means insect larvae)
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 * Occitan: vèrm
 * Ojibwe: moose
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 * Romansch: verm, vierm, vearm
 * Russian:, , червяк
 * Scottish Gaelic: baoiteag, biastag, boiteag, brùiteag, brutag, cnuimh, daolag, durrag
 * Serbian: ,
 * Sicilian: vemmu
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 * Tajik:
 * Tamil: புழு (pulu)
 * Taos: p’ȍwàya’ána
 * Telugu: పురుగు (purugu)
 * Thai: หนอน
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: کیڑا
 * Volapük: vum, vumem
 * Welsh: abwydyn


 * Arabic: (šáχʂun dániʔ)
 * Armenian:, ոչնչություն
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 * Bulgarian: негодник (negodnik), жалко същество (žalko säštestvo)
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 * German: elender Wurm
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew: נבזה (nivzeh)


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 * Korean: 버러지 (beoreoji), 짐승  (jimseung)
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 * Swedish: stackare, kräk
 * Ukrainian: негідник


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 * French: dragon


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 * French: remords


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Verb

 * French: ramper


 * Dutch:


 * French: infiltrer, s'insinuer


 * French: tirer les vers du nez


 * French: vermifuger


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 * Norwegian: krype, ,
 * Romanian: a se târî


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Derived terms

 * blindworm
 * bollworm
 * bookworm
 * cutworm
 * the early bird catches the worm
 * earthworm
 * fishing worm
 * flatworm
 * glowworm
 * hornworm
 * lugworm
 * penis worm


 * ringworm
 * silkworm
 * slowworm
 * tapeworm
 * woodworm
 * wormhole
 * worm lizard
 * worm’s-eye view, worm’s eye view
 * wormwood
 * wormy

Noun

 * 1) worm

Etymology
From *undefined:, *undefined:, from.