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bookworm

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bookworm, popular name for the larvae of several beetles that bore through books, e.g., the drugstore, spider, and deathwatch beetles.
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In this chair, from one year's end to another, sat that prodigious bookworm, Cotton Mather, sometimes devouring a great book, and sometimes scribbling one as big.
Grandfather's Chair by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
This old fellow is Mac, the bookworm, called Worm for short.
Eight Cousins by Alcott, Louisa May View in context
Johnson's father was a bookworm, like his son, rather than a tradesman.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
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