Crossword-Solution: BOOKWORM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Bookworm | n. | Any larva of a beetle or moth, which is injurious to books. Many species are known. |
| Bookworm | n. | A student closely attached to books or addicted to study; a reader without appreciation. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “BOOKWORM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Frequent library patron | 1 answer |
| Wriggling novel lover? | 1 answer |
| Wriggly lover of literature? | 1 answer |
| someone who spends a great deal of time reading | 1 answer |
| person devoted to reading | 1 answer |
| Keen reader | 1 answer |
| Grind, on campus | 1 answer |
| Avid reader, perhaps one who can't put a novel down | 1 answer |
| A real page turner? | 1 answer |
| Studious one | 2 answers |
| moth larva | 2 answers |
| Scholarly one. | 3 answers |
| BIBLIOLATER | 5 answers |
| Literary ___ | 6 answers |
| BEETLE larva | 11 answers |
| AVID READER | 12 answers |
| Reader | 13 answers |
| Student | 25 answers |
| learned person | 26 answers |
| Scholar | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BOOKWORM (5)
Had I the wisdom of a sage Possessed of all the learning That can be gleaned from printed page From bookworm's closest turning, That eager knowledge-seeking lad That questions me so gayly Could still go round and boast he had With queries floored me daily.
She was a strange mixture of tomboy and bookworm, which was a mercifully kind arrangement for both body and mind.
His outlook on the past and the present had always been that of a bookworm, but he understood enough to see that he had come upon a temperament novel enough to awaken curiosity.
Not a volume to be had for love or money!” “This,” remarked the sedate observer beside me, “is a bookworm,—one of those men who are born to gnaw dead thoughts.
Have you no word of comfort for him?” “My dear sir,” said I to the desperate bookworm, “is not nature better than a book? Is not the human heart deeper than any system of philosophy? Is not life replete with more instruction than past observers have found it possible to write down in maxims? Be of good cheer.
Quotes with BOOKWORM (3)
The busybody (banned as sexist, demeaning to older women) who lives next door called my daughter a tomboy (banned as sexist) when she climbed the jungle (banned; replaced with "rain forest") gym. Then she had the nerve to call her an egghead and a bookworm (both banned as offensive; replaced with "intellectual") because she read fairy (banned because suggests homosexuality; replace with "elf") tales. I'm tired of the Language Police turning a deaf ear (banned as handicapism) …
A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of years to get all his reading done; that Count Dracula, basically nothing more than a misunderstood bookworm, was draining blood from the necks of 10,000 hapless virgins not because he was the apotheosis of pure evil but because it was the only way he could live long enough to polish off his extensive reading list. But I have no way…
For a bookworm like Mother, a Brontë novel sister was better than a biological one.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1967–2020).