wormlet
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]wormlet (plural wormlets)
- A small worm.
- 1997, Cynthia Ozick, The Puttermesser Papers[1], New York: Knopf, page 3:
- […] her mother was provident, stingy; in kitchen drawers Puttermesser still discovered folded squares of used ancient waxed paper, million-creased into whiteness, cheese-smelling, nesting small unidentifiable wormlets […]