worm-eaten

English

Adjective

worm-eaten (comparative more worm-eaten, superlative most worm-eaten)

1. Of fruit or other food, eaten by worms, especially having a worm inside.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 36:

     Once upon a time there was a lad, who went along a road cracking nuts. He happened to find one which was worm-eaten, and shortly afterwards he met the devil.

2. (figuratively, by extension) Rotten or decrepit.

Synonyms

• maggoty, wormridden

Translations

eaten by worms, especially having a worm inside

• Bulgarian: червясал (bg) (červjasal)
• Czech: červivý (cs) m
• Dutch: wormstekig (nl)
• French: teigneux (fr), véreux (fr) m
• German: wurmstichig (de) (fruit), madig (de) (meat, cheese, etc.)
• Italian: bacato (it) m
• Kazakh: құрттаған (qūrttağan)
• Latin: vermiculatus
• Spanish: agusanado (es), gusaniento m, gusanoso m
• Swedish: maskäten (sv)
• Walloon: viereus (wa) m, moloné (wa) m