Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Bookish; given to reading: as, a booky person.
  • Derived from books: as, booky lessons.
  • noun Same as bookmaker, 3.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Bookish.

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  • adjective dated bookish

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Examples

  • The older men stared at her more persistently than the younger ones, who liked their own sort and not girls who looked as if they might be "booky" and "spring things on a fellow."

    The Avalanche Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

  • As she grew older, it became known that she was "booky," -- a social crime in San Francisco.

    The Californians Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

  • Kindle 2 and Kindle for iPhone on Your Mac Life -- Glenn talks about the Kindle 2 and Amazon's new Kindle for iPhone application, how easy it is to read on either device, and what makes a book "booky" on Your Mac Life.

    TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us 2009

  • Glenn talks about the Kindle 2 and Amazon's new Kindle for iPhone application, how easy it is to read on either device, and what makes a book "booky" on Your Mac Life.

    TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us 2009

  • I was stunned by how very 'booky' reading a novel on a Kindle is.

    Musings on Photography 2009

  • Kindle 2 and Kindle for iPhone on Your Mac Life -- Glenn talks about the Kindle 2 and Amazon's new Kindle for iPhone application, how easy it is to read on either device, and what makes a book "booky" on Your Mac Life.

    TidBITS: Mac News for the Rest of Us 2009

  • Does that sort of detail make my booky wook any less leaden?

    Booky Wook 2 by Russell Brand John Crace 2010

  • Because there wasn't just one kind of violence in this film (which is, you know, not unexpectedly an extremely violent film) but rather moments of just about everything from extremely comic-booky superheroic combat, to Hong Kong martial arts poetry-of-ultraviolence, to cinema verite, to splatterpunk.

    i have watched the watchmen netcurmudgeon 2009

  • I laid on £20 yesterday with a booky that england would win.

    It’s A Car Tyre – I Can Manage – Go Away! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

  • Alas, I fear my second booky wook is but a hollow avatar of the first, for endless anecdotes about meeting other celebrities wears thin quite quickly, especially when it appears to have been tossed off in a matter of days.

    Booky Wook 2 by Russell Brand John Crace 2010

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