1. 1生蟲的、長蟲的(水果、肉等);也可形容像蟲一樣細長彎曲的。用在土壤時反而是好話,表示蚯蚓多、土質健康。

    Wormy means full of worms, or having worms in it — wormy apples, wormy meat, wormy soil. It is the plain adjective you make from 'worm' by adding -y, the same way rain becomes rainy and dirt becomes dirty. It has two slightly different jobs. Most often it is a complaint: a wormy apple is one you would not want to eat. But with soil, a gardener may say 'nice wormy soil' as praise, because mean the ground is healthy. So the feeling depends on where the worms are. It can also mean simply worm-like — long, thin, and wriggling. A wormy line of handwriting, a wormy on a page. And, more rarely, it describes a person as weak, cringing, or not to be trusted, the same insult carried by calling someone 'a worm'. That last use is old-fashioned and you meet it mostly in books. 'Wormy' is an everyday, spoken word, not a formal one; in careful writing about food or timber you would more often see 'infested' or 'worm-eaten'.

組成worm(蟲)+ -y(形容詞字尾,表示「充滿…的、像…的」)。-y 這個字尾非常好用:rain → rainy,dirt → dirty,luck → lucky。

同家族的字

  • rainysame -y ending: full of rain.
  • dirtysame -y ending: full of dirt.
  • worm-eatenshares worm; describes the holes the worms leave rather than the worms themselves.
  • earthwormshares worm.

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

wormyadj

  • 1

    Of or like a worm or worms; shaped like a worm or worms.

    • The Siamese boy brought in plates containing wormy shreds of over-fried egg, seasoned with blackened bits of onion.
  • 2

    Infested with worms.

    • I am your witness. If their Ladyships so much as mention the word FIRE or STEERPIKE, you shall take them with you under wormy ground.

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