worm-eaten
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worm-eaten
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- Of fruit or other food, eaten by worms, especially having a worm inside. Once upon a time there was a lad, who went along a road cracking nuts. He happened to find one which was worm-eaten, and shortly afterwards he met the devil.
- Rotten or decrepit. The wooden jetty on the East Pier had become worm-eaten and was demolished, but the Admiralty lent an old hulk to serve as a rough-and-ready packet facility.
Similar: maggoty, wormridden
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Similar: maggoty, wormridden
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adj eaten by worms, especially having a worm inside
| Español | agusanado, gusaniento, gusanoso |
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| Français | teigneux, véreux |
| Deutsch | wurmstichig, madig |
| Italiano | bacato |
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