wormlet
English
Etymology
Noun
wormlet (plural wormlets)
- A small worm.
- 1997, Cynthia Ozick, The Puttermesser Papers, New York: Knopf, p. 3,[1]
- […] 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 […]
- 1997, Cynthia Ozick, The Puttermesser Papers, New York: Knopf, p. 3,[1]