Home › Words › W › witwormwitwormwitworm means one who, or that which, feeds on wit (possibly destroying it).EtymologyFrom wit + worm.nounOne who, or that which, feeds on wit (possibly destroying it).e.g.“What hast thou done With thy poor innocent self […]Thus to come forth, so suddenly, a wit-worm?” — 1611, Ben[jamin] Jonson, Catiline His Conspiracy, London: […] [William Stansby?] for Walter Burre, →OCLC, (please specify the page):Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).