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orm.

serpent, snake, or therof slithering legless animal (cf. kopparorm, “slowworm”, sandorm, “sandworm” in the book series Dune)

3 characters1 syllables approx.Svenska language

Meaning & usage

noun/ˈʊrm/

  1. serpent, snake, or therof slithering legless animal (cf. kopparorm, “slowworm”, sandorm, “sandworm” in the book series Dune)

    common-gender

  2. serpent, snake, or therof slithering legless animal (cf. kopparorm, “slowworm”, sandorm, “sandworm” in the book series Dune) snake; a legless reptile of the suborder Serpentes

    common-gender

  3. serpent, snake, or therof slithering legless animal (cf. kopparorm, “slowworm”, sandorm, “sandworm” in the book series Dune) earthworm, maggot, larva (cf. English worm)

    common-gender · dialectal

  4. dragon (cf. English worm); any (mythical) dragon-like creature (cf. lindorm, “lindworm”, sjöorm, “sea serpent”)

    archaic · common-gender · poetic

  5. the archetype of dragons and serpents as morbidity and (in essence, dragons are serpents, and serpents are dragons; compare etter, “atter, snake/dragon venom → figurative morbidity”)

    broadly · common-gender

  6. the archetype of dragons and serpents as morbidity and (in essence, dragons are serpents, and serpents are dragons; compare etter, “atter, snake/dragon venom → figurative morbidity”) snake (generic insult, referencing the archetype of serpents)

    broadly · common-gender
    han är en jävla orm

  7. a mythical worm living in a human body parts, teeth or bones, causing various kinds of sickness

    common-gender
Where this word comes from

From Old Swedish ormber (“snake/dragon, worm/vermin, ringworm”), from Old Norse ormr, from Proto-Germanic *wurmiz, from Proto-Indo-European *wr̥mis, *wrmo- (“serpent, scorpion, maggot, worm”), maybe from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to turn = slither?”). Akin to English worm, wyrm. Doublet of vurm.

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