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

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope