different between wormily vs wormly

English

Etymology

wormy +? -ly

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w??.m?.l?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?w?.m?.li/

Adverb

wormily (comparative more wormily, superlative most wormily)

1. In a manner reminding of a worm, with much twisting and turning.
   • 1936, H. P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness,

     It was not, he declares, anything connected with the cubes and caves of echoing, vaporous, wormily honeycombed mountains of madness which he crossed […]

   • 1999, D. F. Lewis & Stuart Hughes, Beyond the comfort zone, Roadworks, # 4 (Spring 1999), 16-18

     Susan Klein’s fat, puppy-lard face began to ripple, and slowly, wormily, […] there emerged an ordinary looking individual who might have been seen just about anywhere.

   • 2006, Burton, Iowa City, Nov 17, 2006 (Comment)

     When the sleeping bag began squirming wormily and bouncing to the beat […]

English

Etymology

From worm +? -ly.

Adjective

wormly (comparative more wormly, superlative most wormly)

1. Of, pertaining to, or resembling a worm; wormlike.
   • 2014, Celia Warren, Don't Poke a Worm till it Wiggles:

     “I'm the fastest worm there is,” says Slightly Soiled. “I'll win!” Humble Worm gets tangled in a labyrinth of roots. Slightly Soiled surfaces and off the young worm shoots. Yet wormly pride, the saying goes, comes before a rise: […]