Wormily
Pronunciation
- UK IPA: /ˈwÉ™Ë.mÉ™.lɪ/
- US IPA: /ˈwÉ.mÉ™.li/
Origin
wormy + -ly
Full definition of wormily
Adverb
wormily
- In a manner reminding of a worm, with much twisting and turning.
- 1936, H. P. Lovecraft, ,It was not, he declares, anything connected with the cubes and caves of echoing, vaporous, wormily honeycombed mountains of madness which he crossed ...
- 1999, D. F. Lewis & Stuart Hughes, Beyond the comfort zone, Roadworks, # 4 (Spring 1999), 16-18Susan Klein’s fat, puppy-lard face began to ripple, and slowly, wormily, ... there emerged an ordinary looking individual who might have been seen just about anywhere.
- 2006, Burton, Iowa City, Nov 17, 2006 (Comment)When the sleeping bag began squirming wormily and bouncing to the beat ...