worm-eatenadj.

Brit.

/ˈwəːmˌiːtn/, U.S.

/ˈwərmˌitn/

1. Eaten into by a worm or worms.

ΘΠ

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > by loss of material or wasted > worm-eaten

wormetec1000

worm-fret1430

wormyc1430

worm-eatena1475

worm-eat1597

vermiculated1623

wormed1846

a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 45 Take white pese and wasshe hom wele;..Devoyde þo worme-etone alle bydene.

1493 Festyvall (1515) 139 An olde staffe of asshe that..was all worme eten.

1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvii. lxxiv. sig. Qiij/1 Yf frute is perfyte rype it hath good sauour & mery smell: yf it be not roten nother worme eten [a1398 BL Add. worm-ete].

?1577 Misogonus in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Ital. (1911) 239 A neighboure of yours Wch is payned in hir mandible wth a wormetone toth.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. sig. X3 Some made in books, some in long parchment scrolls, That were all worm-eaten, and full of canker holes.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. iii. 132 Smircht worm-eaten tapestry.

1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah xx. 434 The worke of wormes shall not be refused, to cloath a worme-eaten body.

1653 W. Ramesey Astrologia Restaurata 72 He found [it] in an old rotten worm-eaten book.

1679 Rector's Bk. Clayworth (1910) 45 Y^e beans were sound and y^e pease wormeaten.

a1704 T. Brown Walk round London in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) iii. 49 Old Worm-eaten Presses, whose Doors flew open on our approach.

1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 148 Then, like worm-eaten fruit, it drops and dies.

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist III. xxxvii. 2 Old worm-eaten ship timber.

1883 J. G. Wood in Sunday Mag. Oct. 628/2 No one ever yet found an unsound or worm-eaten nut in a squirrel's store.

2. transferred. Applied to organic tissue which is indented with small holes.In Elizabethan writers as a jocular description of a ‘grog-blossom’ nose.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [adjective] > opening or hole

worm-eaten1592

stomatic1835

hiant1848

fenestrated1849

stomatal1861

fenestral1865

orificial1887

1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. B3 ^v A huge worme-eaten nose like a cluster of grapes hanging downwards.

1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. F1 An Antiquary might haue pickt rare matter out of his Nose, but that it was worme-eaten (yet that proued it to be an auncient Nose).

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 966 The whole of the colon above the stricture was distended and worm-eaten by small ulcers.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 746 A larger superficial ulcer..with irregular ‘worm-eaten’ or ‘mouse-nibbled’ margins.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 550 The surface [of the bone] has a worm-eaten appearance.

3. figurative (of persons and things). Decayed, decrepit; antiquated, outworn.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders associated with age > [adjective] > old age

worm-eatenc1575

worm-eat1597

involuted1898

involutional1968

the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated

moth-frettenOE

antiquate?a1425

antique?1532

rusty1549

moth-eaten1551

musty1575

worm-eatenc1575

overyear1584

out of date1589

old-fashioned1592

out of date1592

worm-eat1597

old-fashion1599

ancient1601

outdated1616

out-of-fashion1623

over-aged1623

superannuateda1634

thorough-old1639

overdateda1641

trunk-hosea1643

antiquitated1645

antiquated1654

out-of-fashioned1671

unmodern1731

of the old school1749

auld-farrant1750

old-fangled1764

fossila1770

fogram1772

passé1775

unmodernized1775

oxidated1791

moss-covered1792

square-toeda1797

old-fashionable1807

pigtail1817

behind the times1826

slow1827

fossilized1828

rococo1836

antiquish1838

old-timey1850

out of season1850

moss-grown1851

old style1858

antiqued1859

pigtaily1859

prehistoric1859

backdated1862

played1864

fossiled1866

bygone1869

mossy-backed1870

old-worldly1878

past-time1889

outmoded1896

dated1900

brontosaurian1909

antiquey1926

horse-and-buggy1926

vintage1928

Neolithic1934

time-warped1938

demoded1941

steam age1941

hairy1946

old school1946

rinky-dink1946

time warp1954

Palaeolithic1957

retardataire1958

throwback1968

wally1969

antwacky1975

c1575 W. Wager Longer thou Livest (Brandl) 329 You begin to be scabbie and worme eaten, It is time Salt vpon you to strow.

1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. B3^v His wormeaten Conscience.

1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 158 Your close in the treble part is so stale that it is almost worme eaten.

1604 T. Dekker Newes from Graues-end sig. A4 That worme-eaten name of Liberall... It's a name of the old fashion.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. vii. §4. 103 And therefore..were all thinges among the Greekes (which antiquitie had worne out of knowledge) called Ogygia, which we in English commonly call (worme-eaten) or of defaced date.

1637 S. Rutherford Let. in Joshua Redivivus (1671) 187 O poor fools who are beguiled with painted things..and rotten worm-eaten hopes!

1721 A. Ramsay Tartana 362 These musty Fools Who only move by old worm-eaten Rules.

1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Sept. 5/1 The worm-eaten bibliophile.

1906 W. De Morgan Joseph Vance li. 519 I was worm-eaten with sad misgivings.

absolute.1730 A. Pope Corr. 1 Oct. (1956) III. 135 The Employment I am fittest for; Conversation with the dead, the old, and the worm-eaten.

Derivatives

† worm-eatenness n. Obsolete worm-eaten condition.

ΘΠ

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > loss of material > worm-eaten state

worm-eatenness1615

verminationa1631

verminousness1727

1615 W. Welde tr. Janua Linguarum 49 The tops of chestnut trees rot with rusty wormeatenness.

1617 F. Holyoake Riders Dict. (new ed.) sig. Kk6^v Caries..Rottennesse or wormeatennesse in wood.

1666 J. Smith Γηροκομία Βασιλικὴ 85 By the ceasing of the teeth we must understand, all those infirmities that are incident to them by reason of age, whether looseness, hollowness, rottenness,..wormeatenness, [etc.].

1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum at Verminousness Fulness of Worms, Worm-eatenness.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	worm-eaten
释义	worm-eatenadj. Brit. /ˈwəːmˌiːtn/, U.S. /ˈwərmˌitn/ 1. Eaten into by a worm or worms. ΘΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > by loss of material or wasted > worm-eaten wormetec1000 worm-fret1430 wormyc1430 worm-eatena1475 worm-eat1597 vermiculated1623 wormed1846 a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 45 Take white pese and wasshe hom wele;..Devoyde þo worme-etone alle bydene. 1493 Festyvall (1515) 139 An olde staffe of asshe that..was all worme eten. 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xvii. lxxiv. sig. Qiij/1 Yf frute is perfyte rype it hath good sauour & mery smell: yf it be not roten nother worme eten [a1398 BL Add. worm-ete]. ?1577 Misogonus in R. W. Bond Early Plays from Ital. (1911) 239 A neighboure of yours Wch is payned in hir mandible wth a wormetone toth. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. sig. X3 Some made in books, some in long parchment scrolls, That were all worm-eaten, and full of canker holes. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing iii. iii. 132 Smircht worm-eaten tapestry. View more context for this quotation 1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah xx. 434 The worke of wormes shall not be refused, to cloath a worme-eaten body. 1653 W. Ramesey Astrologia Restaurata 72 He found [it] in an old rotten worm-eaten book. 1679 Rector's Bk. Clayworth (1910) 45 Y^e beans were sound and y^e pease wormeaten. a1704 T. Brown Walk round London in 3rd Vol. Wks. (1708) iii. 49 Old Worm-eaten Presses, whose Doors flew open on our approach. 1827 J. Clare Shepherd's Cal. 148 Then, like worm-eaten fruit, it drops and dies. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist III. xxxvii. 2 Old worm-eaten ship timber. 1883 J. G. Wood in Sunday Mag. Oct. 628/2 No one ever yet found an unsound or worm-eaten nut in a squirrel's store. 2. transferred. Applied to organic tissue which is indented with small holes.In Elizabethan writers as a jocular description of a ‘grog-blossom’ nose. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [adjective] > opening or hole worm-eaten1592 stomatic1835 hiant1848 fenestrated1849 stomatal1861 fenestral1865 orificial1887 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. B3 ^v A huge worme-eaten nose like a cluster of grapes hanging downwards. 1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. F1 An Antiquary might haue pickt rare matter out of his Nose, but that it was worme-eaten (yet that proued it to be an auncient Nose). 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. III. 966 The whole of the colon above the stricture was distended and worm-eaten by small ulcers. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 746 A larger superficial ulcer..with irregular ‘worm-eaten’ or ‘mouse-nibbled’ margins. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VI. 550 The surface [of the bone] has a worm-eaten appearance. 3. figurative (of persons and things). Decayed, decrepit; antiquated, outworn. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders associated with age > [adjective] > old age worm-eatenc1575 worm-eat1597 involuted1898 involutional1968 the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adjective] > old-fashioned or antiquated moth-frettenOE antiquate?a1425 antique?1532 rusty1549 moth-eaten1551 musty1575 worm-eatenc1575 overyear1584 out of date1589 old-fashioned1592 out of date1592 worm-eat1597 old-fashion1599 ancient1601 outdated1616 out-of-fashion1623 over-aged1623 superannuateda1634 thorough-old1639 overdateda1641 trunk-hosea1643 antiquitated1645 antiquated1654 out-of-fashioned1671 unmodern1731 of the old school1749 auld-farrant1750 old-fangled1764 fossila1770 fogram1772 passé1775 unmodernized1775 oxidated1791 moss-covered1792 square-toeda1797 old-fashionable1807 pigtail1817 behind the times1826 slow1827 fossilized1828 rococo1836 antiquish1838 old-timey1850 out of season1850 moss-grown1851 old style1858 antiqued1859 pigtaily1859 prehistoric1859 backdated1862 played1864 fossiled1866 bygone1869 mossy-backed1870 old-worldly1878 past-time1889 outmoded1896 dated1900 brontosaurian1909 antiquey1926 horse-and-buggy1926 vintage1928 Neolithic1934 time-warped1938 demoded1941 steam age1941 hairy1946 old school1946 rinky-dink1946 time warp1954 Palaeolithic1957 retardataire1958 throwback1968 wally1969 antwacky1975 c1575 W. Wager Longer thou Livest (Brandl) 329 You begin to be scabbie and worme eaten, It is time Salt vpon you to strow. 1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. B3^v His wormeaten Conscience. 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 158 Your close in the treble part is so stale that it is almost worme eaten. 1604 T. Dekker Newes from Graues-end sig. A4 That worme-eaten name of Liberall... It's a name of the old fashion. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. vii. §4. 103 And therefore..were all thinges among the Greekes (which antiquitie had worne out of knowledge) called Ogygia, which we in English commonly call (worme-eaten) or of defaced date. 1637 S. Rutherford Let. in Joshua Redivivus (1671) 187 O poor fools who are beguiled with painted things..and rotten worm-eaten hopes! 1721 A. Ramsay Tartana 362 These musty Fools Who only move by old worm-eaten Rules. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Sept. 5/1 The worm-eaten bibliophile. 1906 W. De Morgan Joseph Vance li. 519 I was worm-eaten with sad misgivings. absolute.1730 A. Pope Corr. 1 Oct. (1956) III. 135 The Employment I am fittest for; Conversation with the dead, the old, and the worm-eaten. Derivatives † worm-eatenness n. Obsolete worm-eaten condition. ΘΠ the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > loss of material > worm-eaten state worm-eatenness1615 verminationa1631 verminousness1727 1615 W. Welde tr. Janua Linguarum 49 The tops of chestnut trees rot with rusty wormeatenness. 1617 F. Holyoake Riders Dict. (new ed.) sig. Kk6^v Caries..Rottennesse or wormeatennesse in wood. 1666 J. Smith Γηροκομία Βασιλικὴ 85 By the ceasing of the teeth we must understand, all those infirmities that are incident to them by reason of age, whether looseness, hollowness, rottenness,..wormeatenness, [etc.]. 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum at Verminousness Fulness of Worms, Worm-eatenness. 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