Friday word: Vermiculate

[med_cat]

Bringing in more scholarly words, as promised ;)
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Vermiculate: 1.  worm-like: shaped like a worm, winding, or marked with wavy lines:

"“On their backs were vermiculate patterns that were maps of the world in its becoming." (Cormac McCarthy, The Road)

                    2. worm-eaten (literally or figuratively): vermiculate ideas.

Etymology: Latin vermiculatus, from vermiculus (worm)

First Known Use: 1605

Comments

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Ooo -- I hadn't met the worm-eaten sense. Must remember that.

---L.

[med_cat]

Glad to have provided you with a new tidbit of info ;)

Yeah, that's the sense in which I had first seen that word...can't for the life of me remember where! I would've sworn it was in Shakespeare, but I can't find the specific passage.