English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Middle English worm, werm, wurm, wirm, from Old English wyrm ‘snake, worm’, from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz (compare Dutch worm, West Frisian wjirm, German Wurm, Danish orm), from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis (compare Latin vermis '‘worm’, Lithuanian var̃mas ‘insect, midge’, Albanian rrime ‘rainworm’, Ancient Greek ῥόμος (rhómos) ‘woodworm’), possibly from *wer- ‘to turn’. First computer usage by John Brunner in his 1975 book The Shockwave Rider.
Pronunciation [edit]
worm (plural worms)
- A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum.
- A contemptible or devious being.
- Don't try to run away, you little worm!
- (computing) A self-replicating program that propagates through a network.
- (cricket) A graphical representation of the total runs scored in an innings.
- Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
- (archaic) A dragon or mythological serpent.
- An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse.
- The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul! — Richard III, William Shakespeare
Translations [edit]
animal
- Afrikaans: wurm (af)
- Ainu: キキㇼ (kikir)
- Albanian: krimb (sq)
- Arabic: دُودَة (ar) (dūda) f, (collective) دُودٌ (ar) (dūd) pl
- Armenian: որդ (hy) (ord), ճիճու (hy) (č̣ič̣u)
- Old Armenian: որդն (ordn)
- Aromanian: yermu (rup)
- Azeri: qurd (az)
- Basque: beldar (eu), zizare (eu), arr (eu), har (eu)
- Belarusian: чарвяк (be) (čarvják) m
- Breton: preñv (br)
- Bulgarian: червей (bg) (čérvej) m
- Burmese: တီကောင် (my) (tigaung) (earthworm), သန်ကောင် (my) (than-gaung) (intestinal parasite)
- Catalan: cuc (ca) m
- Chamicuro: keni
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 蟲子 (cmn), 虫子 (cmn) (chóngzi), 蟲 (cmn), 虫 (cmn) (chóng)
- Czech: červ (cs) m
- Danish: orm (da) c
- Dutch: worm (nl) m, pier (nl) m, wurm (nl) m
- Erzya: сукс (suks)
- Esperanto: vermo (eo)
- Estonian: uss (et)
- Finnish: mato (fi)
- French: ver (fr) m
- Friulian: vier
- Galician: verme (gl) m
- Georgian: ჭია (ka) (chia)
- German: Wurm (de) m
- Greek:
- Ancient: σκώληξ (skōlēx) m, ἕλμινς (helmins) f, ἕλμις (helmis) f
- Modern: σκουλήκι (el) (skoulíki) n
- Hebrew: תולע (he) (tola) m
- Hindi: कीड़ा (hi) (kīṛā) m
- Hungarian: kukac (hu)
- Icelandic: maðkur (is) m, ormur (is)
- Indonesian: cacing (id)
- Irish: péist (ga) f, cruimh (ga) f, cuiteog (ga) f
- Old Irish: cruim f
- Italian: verme (it) m
- Japanese: 虫 (ja) (むし, mushí), 虫螻 (ja) (むしけら, mushikera)
- Jèrriais: vèr m
- Karachay-Balkar: къурт (qurt)
- Kazakh: құрт (kk) (qurt)
- Khmer: ដង្កូវ (km) (dɑngkəv)
- Korean: 벌레 (ko) (beolle)
- Kurdish:
- Kurmanji: kirm (ku), kurm (ku)
- Sorani: کرم (ku) (kirm)
- Kyrgyz: курт (ky) (kurt)
- Lao: ຂີ້ກະເດືອນ (lo) (kʰȉː ká dɨaːn), ຫນອນ (lo) (nɔ̆ːn)
- Latgalian: tuorps m, tuorpeņš m
- Latin: vermis (la) m
- Latvian: tārps (lv) m
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- Lithuanian: kirmėlė (lt) f, kirminas (lt) m (also means insect larvae)
- Low German: Worm (nds) m
- Macedonian: црв (mk) (crv) m
- Malay: cacing (ms)
- Manx: beishteig (gv) f
- Maori: noke (mi), toke (mi)
- Mongolian: өт (mn) (öt)
- Navajo: chʼosh
- Neapolitan: vierme m
- Norwegian: mark (no) m, makk (no) m, orm (no) m
- Occitan: vèrm (oc) m
- Ojibwe: moose
- Old Church Slavonic:
- Cyrillic: чрьвь (črĭvĭ) m, глиста (sh) f
- Glagolitic: ⰝⰓⰠⰂⰠ (črĭvĭ) m
- Oromo: rammoo (om)
- Persian: کرم (fa) (kerm)
- Polish: robak (pl) m, (grub) czerw (pl) m
- Portuguese: verme (pt) m
- Romanian: vierme (ro) m
- Romansch: verm (rm) m, vierm (rm) m, vearm (rm) m
- Russian: червь (ru) (červʹ) m, червяк (ru) (červják) m, (helminth) глист (ru) (glist) m
- Scottish Gaelic: baoiteag (gd) f, biastag (gd) f, boiteag (gd) f, brùiteag (gd) f, brutag (gd) f, cnuimh (gd) f, daolag (gd) f, durrag (gd) f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: црв (sh) m, глиста (sh) f
- Roman: crv (sh) m, glista (sh) f
- Sicilian: vemmu (scn) m
- Slovak: červ (sk) m
- Slovene: črv (sl) m
- Sorbian:
- Lower Sorbian: wužeńc m, cerw m
- Sotho: seboko (st)
- Spanish: gusano (es) m, lombriz (es) f
- Swedish: mask (sv) c
- Tajik: кирм (tg) (kirm)
- Tamil: புழு (ta) (pulu)
- Taos: p’ȍwàya’ána
- Tatar: суалчан (tt) (sualçan)
- Telugu: పురుగు (te) (purugu)
- Thai: หนอน (th) (nááwn)
- Tlingit: tl'úk'x
- Turkish: kurt (tr)
- Turkmen: gurçuk (tk), möjek (tk)
- Ukrainian: черв'як (uk) (červʹják) m
- Urdu: کیڑا (ur) (kīṛā) m
- Uzbek: qurt (uz)
- Vietnamese: giun (vi), con giun (vi)
- Volapük: vum (vo), (collective) vumem (vo)
- Welsh: mwydyn (cy) m, llyngyren (cy) m
- Zulu: isibungu (zu) 7/8
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something helical, especially the thread of a screw
dragon or mythological serpent
worm (third-person singular simple present worms, present participle worming, simple past and past participle wormed)
- (transitive) To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
- We wormed our way through the underbrush.
- (intransitive, figuratively) To work one's way by artful or devious means.
- (transitive, figuratively) To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
- He wormed his way into the organization
- To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means; often followed by out.
- Jonathan Swift
- They find themselves wormed out of all power.
- (transitive, figuratively) To obtain information from someone through artful or devious means (usually used with out of)
- Dickens
- They […] wormed things out of me that I had no desire to tell.
- 1913, Marie Belloc Lowndes, The Lodger
- I've got a awk'ard job - to try and worm something out of the barmaid.
- (transitive, nautical) To fill in the contlines of a rope before parcelling and serving.
- Worm and parcel with the lay; turn and serve the other way.
- Totten
- Ropes […] are generally wormed before they are served.
- (transitive) To deworm an animal.
- (intransitive) To move with one's body dragging the ground.
- 1919, William Joseph Long, How animals talk: and other pleasant studies of birds and beast
- Inch by inch I wormed along the secret passageway, flat to the ground, not once raising my head, hardly daring to pull a full breath [...]
- (transitive) To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
- Sir Walter Scott
- The men assisted the laird in his sporting parties, wormed his dogs, and cut the ears of his terrier puppies.
- (transitive) To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
Translations [edit]
to make one's way with a crawling motion
to get (into) gradually or slowly
to obtain information through artful or devious means
(nautical) to fill in the contlines of a rope before parcelling and serving
to cure of intestinal worms
to move with one's body dragging the ground
to work one's way by artful or devious means
Derived terms [edit]
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References [edit]
- [1] The Free Dictionary, Farlex Inc., 2010.
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Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Old Dutch *wurm, *worm, from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis. Compare English worm, West Frisian wjirm, German Wurm, Danish orm.
worm m (plural wormen, diminutive wormpje)
- worm
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