bookwormy

English

Etymology

bookworm +‎ -y

Adjective

bookwormy (comparative more bookwormy, superlative most bookwormy)

1. Like a bookworm; studious.
   • 1912, Alice Hegan Rice, A Romance of Billy Goat Hill, page 39:

     He's a teacher or something, one of them bookwormy men, whose head never pays no attention to what the rest of him is doing.

Synonyms

• bookwormish