🇬🇧🇪🇸 wormy - gusano : English Lesson

Meaning of "wormy" ("gusano"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

“Wormy” describes something that has worms living in it or has been chewed up or hurt by worms. People often use this word for fruit, dirt, or old wood that worms have crawled into and made little holes in. If an apple is wormy, it might have a squirmy little worm inside or tunnels where a worm has eaten through it.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

I planted a fake plastic carrot, and even that somehow ended up wormy, which feels like overachieving.

Our Halloween decorations got so old and wormy that we didn’t need fake monsters anymore—the porch was scary by itself.

Our dog proudly brought us a wormy stick like it was a golden trophy of disgustingness.

I opened my lunchbox and screamed, then realized it was just a very realistic drawing of a wormy apple my brother had taped inside.

Farmers actually like wormy soil because the worms help make the dirt healthy—but they still prefer their apples not to be wormy snacks.

At lunch, a girl bit into a wormy apple. White worms wriggled from the wormy core; the wormy slice fell back onto the plate. She pushed the wormy bite away and laughed, then showed her mother the wormy fruit. Her mother frowned, swapped the apple for a fresh one, and the girl sighed with relief.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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