Associations to the word «Bookworm»

Wiktionary

BOOKWORM, noun. Any of various insects that infest books.
BOOKWORM, noun. An avid book reader.

Dictionary definition

BOOKWORM, noun. A person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit.
BOOKWORM, noun. Someone who spends a great deal of time reading.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne