bookworm

[plin]

If one tells someone else that he is a bookworm, how is it perceived? Funny, offensive, indifferent, normal? Thanks.

[Rusty]

If one tells someone else that he is a bookworm, how is it perceived? Funny, offensive, indifferent, normal? Thanks.

It seems to me that you don't tell someone to his face that he is a bookworm. You would tell someone that someone else is a bookworm. It would be a mild compliment, but perhaps given with the attitude that reading too much makes the other person unsociable. A parent might complain that a child is a bookworm: it's impossible to get him/her to do chores or go outside.