Definition of "wormy"

wormy

adjective
comparative wormier, superlative wormiest
1. Of or like a worm or worms; shaped like a worm or worms.
  Quotations
  The Siamese boy brought in plates containing wormy shreds of over-fried egg, seasoned with blackened bits of onion.
  1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 417
2. Infested with worms.
  Quotations
  I am your witness. If their Ladyships so much as mention the word FIRE or STEERPIKE, you shall take them with you under wormy ground.
  1946, Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan