worm

Etymology
From, , , , from , from , from , possibly from. , which is a fairly recent borrowing directly from the Old English.

First computer usage by John Brunner in his 1975 book The Shockwave Rider.

Germanic cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Indo-European cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) A generally tubular invertebrate of the annelid phylum; an earthworm.
 * 2) More loosely, any of various tubular invertebrates resembling annelids but not closely related to them, such as velvet worms, acorn worms, flatworms, or roundworms.
 * 3)  A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent or any kind of dragon.
 * 4)  Either a mythical "dragon" (especially wingless), a gigantic sea serpent, or a creature that resembles a Mongolian death worm.
 * 5) A contemptible or devious being.
 * 6)  A self-replicating malware that propagates through a network.
 * 7)  A graphical representation of the total runs scored across a number of overs.
 * 8) Anything helical, especially the thread of a screw.
 * 9) A spiral instrument or screw, often like a double corkscrew, used for drawing balls from firearms.
 * 10) The spiral wire of a corkscrew.
 * 11)  A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
 * 12) The condensing tube of a still, often curved and wound to save space.
 * 13) A short revolving screw whose threads drive, or are driven by, a worm wheel or rack by gearing into its teeth.
 * 14)  Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.
 * 15) * 1561, , 28:3-4,
 * And when Paul had gathered a nomber of stickes, & laid them on the fyre, there came a viper out of the heat, and leapt on his hand. Now when the Barbarians sawe the worme hang on his hand, they said among them selues This man surely is a murtherer, whome, thogh he hathe escaped the sea, yet Vengeance hathe not suffred to liue.
 * 1)  An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
 * 2)  A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
 * 3)  The lytta.
 * 4)  A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
 * 1)  Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.
 * 2) * 1561, , 28:3-4,
 * And when Paul had gathered a nomber of stickes, & laid them on the fyre, there came a viper out of the heat, and leapt on his hand. Now when the Barbarians sawe the worme hang on his hand, they said among them selues This man surely is a murtherer, whome, thogh he hathe escaped the sea, yet Vengeance hathe not suffred to liue.
 * 1)  An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one’s mind with remorse.
 * 2)  A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
 * 3)  The lytta.
 * 4)  A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.
 * 1)  A strip of linked tiles sharing parallel edges in a tiling.
 * 2)  The lytta.
 * 3)  A dance, or dance move, in which the dancer lies on the floor and undulates the body horizontally thereby moving forwards.

Usage notes

 * It is common to use the plural form worms to refer to intestinal or other internal parasites.
 * Although the use of the "worm" to mean "dragon" or "serpent" is archaic, those meanings are in current use in the word "wyrm" which is a doublet of "worm". Wyrm is a fairly recent borrowing directly from the Old English.

Verb

 * 1)  To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
 * 2)  To move with one's body dragging the ground.
 * 3)  To work one's way by artful or devious means.
 * 4)  To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
 * 5)  To effect, remove, drive, draw, or the like, by slow and secret means.
 * 6)  To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
 * 7)  To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
 * 8)  To deworm (an animal).
 * 9)  To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
 * 10)  To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
 * 1)  To drag out of, to get information that someone is reluctant or unwilling to give (through artful or devious means or by pleading or asking repeatedly).
 * 2)  To fill in the contlines of (a rope) before parcelling and serving.
 * 3)  To deworm (an animal).
 * 4)  To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
 * 5)  To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
 * 1)  To deworm (an animal).
 * 2)  To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
 * 3)  To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
 * 1)  To cut the worm, or lytta, from under the tongue of (a dog, etc.) for the purpose of checking a disposition to gnaw, and formerly supposed to guard against canine madness.
 * 2)  To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.
 * 1)  To clean by means of a worm; to draw a wad or cartridge from, as a firearm.

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Etymology 1
From, from , , from , from. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) worm,

Etymology
From, from , from , from.

Noun

 * 1) A  or similar small wormlike animal that lives in the ground; especially in the following special senses:
 * 2) A wormish insect that damages plants or plant-based material e.g. a termite.
 * 3) A wormish insect that damages human remains.
 * 4) A parasitic ; especially one living in the stomach.
 * 5) A crawling animal; an animal that moves upon the ground.
 * 6) An animal regarded as harmful and annoying.
 * 7) A snake or snake-like monster.
 * 8) A dragon, drake, or wyrm mythological fire-breathing winged lizard
 * 9) A beast that inhabits Hell; causing suffering to its inhabitants.
 * 10) A pauper, miser, or other contemptuous individual.
 * 11) regret, forgiveness; the twanging of the heartstrings.
 * 12) evil, malice; that which promotes maliciousness.
 * 13)  The snake of Eden.
 * 14)  Satan, the Devil.
 * 15)  A muscle underneath the tongue of a dog seen as increasing the risk of rabies.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)   self-replicating program