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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From book + worm.
Pronunciation
Noun
bookworm (plural bookworms)
- Any of various insects that infest books.
- (figurative) An avid book reader.
- Synonyms: bibliophage, bibliophile, bibliovore, book lover, librophile, librovore
- Hyponyms: helluo librorum, bibliomane, bibliomaniac
1846, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Earth's Holocaust”, in Mosses from an Old Manse:“This,” remarked the sedate observer beside me, “is a bookworm,—one of those men who are born to gnaw dead thoughts. His clothes, you see, are covered with the dust of libraries.
Translations
avid reader
- Belarusian: кні́жны чарвя́к m (knížny čarvják), кнігае́д m (knihajéd)
- Bulgarian: кни́жен че́рвей m (knížen čérvej)
- Catalan: lletraferit (ca) m, lletraferida (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 書蟲／书虫 (zh) (shūchóng), 書呆子／书呆子 (zh) (shūdāizi)
- Czech: knihomol (cs) m
- Danish: bogorm (da) c, læsehest (da) c
- Dutch: boekenwurm (nl) m
- Finnish: kirjatoukka, lukutoukka (fi)
- French: rat de bibliothèque (fr) m, papivore (fr) m or f, bibliophage (fr) m or f
- German: Bücherwurm (de) m, Leseratte (de) f, Bücherbohrer (de) m
- Greek: βιβλιοφάγος (el) m or f (vivliofágos), βιβλιόφιλος (el) m (vivliófilos), φιλαναγνώστης (el) m (filanagnóstis)
- Hebrew: תּוֹלַעַת סְפָרִים (he) m (tolá'at sfarím)
- Hungarian: könyvmoly (hu)
- Icelandic: lestrarhestur m
- Indonesian: kutu buku (id)
- Irish: léitheoir craosach m
- Italian: bibliofago m, topo di biblioteca m
- Japanese: 本の虫 (ほんのむし, hon no mushi), 書痴 (ja) (しょち, shochi)
- Kannada: ಕುಡುಮಿ (kuḍumi)
- Kazakh: кітап құрты (kıtap qūrty)
- Korean: 독서광(讀書狂) (dokseogwang), 책벌레 (ko) (chaekbeolle)
- Macedonian: книжен молец m (knižen molec), книгољубец m (knigoljubec)
- Malay: kutu buku, ulat buku
- Manx: sheer-lhaider m
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: lesehest, bokorm (no) m
- Nynorsk: lesehest m, bokorm m
- Polish: mól książkowy (pl) m
- Portuguese: rato de biblioteca m, bibliófago (pt) m
- Punjabi: ਕਿਤਾਬੀ ਕੀੜਾ m (kitābī kīṛā)
- Romanian: șoarece de bibliotecă (ro) f
- Russian: кни́жный червь (ru) m (knížnyj červʹ), книгое́д (ru) m (knigojéd), книголю́б (ru) m (knigoljúb), библиофи́л (ru) m (bibliofíl), книгоче́й (ru) m (knigočéj) (dated), кни́жник (ru) m (knížnik)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: књишки мољац m
- Roman: knjiški moljac m
- Slovak: knihomoľ m
- Slovene: knjižni molj m
- Spanish: ratón de biblioteca m, tragalibros m or f, comelibros m or f, letraherido m
- Swedish: bokmal (sv) c
- Tagalog: palabasa
- Thai: หนอนหนังสือ (nɔ̌ɔn-nǎng-sʉ̌ʉ)
- Turkish: kitap kurdu (tr)
- Ukrainian: книжко́вий хроба́к m (knyžkóvyj xrobák), книголю́б m (knyholjúb), бібліофі́л (uk) m (bibliofíl), кни́жник m (knýžnyk), кни́жниця f (knýžnycja), книгої́д m (knyhojíd)
- Vietnamese: mọt sách (vi)
- Welsh: llyfrbryf m
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