"book-worm" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: book-worms [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} book-worm (plural book-worms)
  1. Alternative form of bookworm Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: bookworm
    Sense id: en-book-worm-en-noun-eZ-P9Oup Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "text": "Padre. \"I have never been much of a book-worm, but it appears to me if man, as Dr. Baāhar says, represents vice and woman virtue, your college learning directly tends to the cultivation of a vicious course by keeping before the people the barbarous acts of the ancients derived from their own language, which gives the scholar a directing power, from a studied understanding of the corruptions practiced in past ages.\"",
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