Definitions

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  • noun A book or catalogue listing desirable things.

Etymologies

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wish +‎ book

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Examples

  • Eventually you lose the energy to make a list finding yourself staring at the "wishbook" forlornly having no faith whatsoever that any wish or desire would be fulfilled.

    Blisstree 2008

  • Remember collecting Green Stamps and Plaid Stamps, and counting the days until you saved up enough to buy one of those swell gifts pictured in the wishbook catalogs?

    In praise of food that gives you gas 2009

  • Remember collecting Green Stamps and Plaid Stamps, and counting the days until you saved up enough to buy one of those swell gifts pictured in the wishbook catalogs?

    In praise of food that gives you gas 2009

  • Richard Lopez: from browsing the stacks at local bookstores, or trips to moe's in berkeley, or reading a review then looking for the book online, or going thru the spd catalog like a kid eyeballing the toys in the toys r us xmas wishbook, or every permutation of search inbetween.

    DO YOU BUY POETRY? THE RAW DATA 2008

  • Richard Lopez: from browsing the stacks at local bookstores, or trips to moe's in berkeley, or reading a review then looking for the book online, or going thru the spd catalog like a kid eyeballing the toys in the toys r us xmas wishbook, or every permutation of search inbetween.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • I've read arbitration letters that come off like debate team scripts, and I've read some that you wouldn't be surprised to discover were pages torn from a heartbroken stalker's hidden wishbook.

    Archive 2007-03-11 Rogers 2007

  • Pegrams work themselves into paroxysms of laughter over stories worn smooth from the telling, stories about relatives present and long gone, stories concerning the lingerie section in the Sears wishbook a precursor of store-bought toilet paper, someone explained, just to be sure, about various critters that like to hang around loosely constructed outbuildings, stories, in short, about the inevitable assaults on human dignity common in the days before polyvinyl chloride and the ball float.

    Again to Carthage Jr. John L. Parker 2007

  • I've read arbitration letters that come off like debate team scripts, and I've read some that you wouldn't be surprised to discover were pages torn from a heartbroken stalker's hidden wishbook.

    Writing: Arbitration Letters Rogers 2007

  • As is the case with George W. Bush's latest budget wishbook.

    DON'T DeLay YOUR DEPARTURE, TOM -- D.C. NEEDS FRESH AIR 2006

  • Baroni's struggles to care for her mother, 88, are why the Council on Aging of Martin County nominated her for the community wishbook.

    tcpalm.com Stories 2009

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