Dictionary Definition

bookworm

1 a person who pays more attention to formal rules and book learning than they merit [syn: pedant, scholastic]

2 someone who spends a great deal of time reading

User Contributed Dictionary

bookworm (plural bookworms)

Bookworm may refer to:

Bibliophile or bookworm, an avid reader and lover of books
Bookworm (insect), a popular generalization for any insect which supposedly bores through books
Bookworm (comics), a comic strip in the Whoopee!, and later Whizzer and Chips, comic books
Bookworm (game), word-forming puzzle video game by PopCap Games
The Bookworm, a painting by German painter Carl Spitzweg
Bookworm, a radio show on literature hosted by Michael Silverblatt
The Bookworm, a villain in the 1960's Batman TV show

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