worm-eaten

adjective2

1. •
   Of fruit or other food, eaten by worms, especially having a worm inside.

   • 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. — 1886
2. •
   (figurative) Rotten or decrepit.

   • The wooden jetty on the East Pier had become worm-eaten and was demolished, but the Admiralty lent an old hulk to serve as a rough-and-ready packet facility. — 1960