1837 C. Dickens 7 Sept. (1965) I. 304 If the Pickwick has been the means of putting a few shillings in the vermin-eaten pockets of so miserable a creature, [etc.].
1901 ‘L. Malet’ v. iii. 398 The removal of wailing, alms-demanding, vermin-eaten wrecks of humanity.
1931 R. Campbell i. 16 So many poets..sigh to share their [sc. gypsies'] vermin-eaten ways.