worm-eaten

worm-eaten (comparative more worm-eaten, superlative most worm-eaten)

1. Of fruit or other food, eaten by worms, especially having a worm inside.
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 36:

     Once upon a time there was a lad, who went along a road cracking nuts. He happened to find one which was worm-eaten, and shortly afterwards he met the devil.

2. (figuratively, by extension) Rotten or decrepit.

• maggoty, wormridden