Meanings
comparative more wormily · superlative most wormily
- In a manner reminding of a worm, with much twisting and turning.
It was not, he declares, anything connected with the cubes and caves of echoing, vaporous, wormily honeycombed mountains of madness which he crossed […]
1936, H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness1 more example
Susan Klein’s fat, puppy-lard face began to ripple, and slowly, wormily, […] there emerged an ordinary looking individual who might have been seen just about anywhere.
Spring 1999, D. F. Lewis, Stuart Hughes, “Beyond the comfort zone”, in Roadworks, number 4, pages 16–18
Origin
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