wormy

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
wormy
    adj 1: infested with or damaged (as if eaten) by worms [syn:
           {vermiculate}, {worm-eaten}, {wormy}]
    2: totally submissive [syn: {cringing}, {groveling},
       {grovelling}, {wormlike}, {wormy}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Wormy \Worm"y\, a. [Compar. {Wormier}; superl. {Wormiest}.]
   [1913 Webster]
   1. Containing a worm; abounding with worms. "Wormy beds."
      --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Like or pertaining to a worm; earthy; groveling.
      [1913 Webster]
    
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
68 Moby Thesaurus words for "wormy":
      barfy, beset, blasted, blighted, blown, crappy, despoiled,
      disgusting, fecal, feculent, fetid, filthy, flyblown, foul,
      frowsty, frowsy, frowzy, fusty, gloppy, grubby, gunky, icky,
      infested, lousy, maggoty, malodorous, mephitic, mildewed,
      moldering, moldy, moth-eaten, mucky, musty, nasty, nauseating,
      odious, ordurous, pedicular, pediculous, plagued, puky, putrid,
      rank, ratty, ravaged, repulsive, rotten, scabby, scummy, scurfy,
      shitty, slabby, slimy, sloppy, sloshy, sludgy, slushy, smutted,
      smutty, sposhy, teeming, vermiform, vile, vomity, weevily,
      worm-eaten, wormlike, yecchy

    

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