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worm noun

  /wɜːm/ , /wɝm/
  • (archaic, or, poetic) Any creeping or crawling animal, such as a snake, snail, or caterpillar.
  • (computing) A self-replicating program that propagates through a network, differing from a virus in usually lacking any destructive effects.
  • (anatomy) A muscular band in the tongue of some animals, such as dogs; the lytta.
 orm
  • (archaic) A type of wingless "dragon", especially a gigantic sea serpent or any kind of dragon.
 drage, orm

worm verb

  /wɜːm/ , /wɝm/
  • (transitive) To make (one's way) with a crawling motion.
 kravle
  • (intransitive) To move with one's body dragging the ground.
 kravle, krybe, åle
  • (transitive, figuratively) To work (one's way or oneself) (into) gradually or slowly; to insinuate.
  • (transitive, figuratively, in “worm out of”) 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).
 orme sig

Worms properNoun

  /vɔɹmz/ , /vɔːmz/
  • An independent town in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
 Worms
slow worm
stålorm
the early bird gets the worm
morgenstund har guld i mund
measuring worm
pacemaker
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