Dictionary

bookstorekeeper en · NOUN

Etymology

From bookstore + keeper, under the influence of storekeeper.

Meanings

1. One who operates a bookstore.
   • He always felt bad when he passed the place where he and the others had beaten the Jewish bookstorekeeper. 1941, Stuart David Engstrand, Spring 1940, Doubleday, page 310:
   • Betty Crawford purchases underclass pictures for a friend from Bookstorekeeper, Mrs. Marion Kuszmaul. 1967, The Post, volume 39, Indianapolis, Ind.: George Washington High School, page 124:
   • “But,” exclaimed Lucile breathlessly, feeling that the scent was growing fresher all the while, “from whom did the doctor purchase it at so ridiculous a price?” / “From a fool bookstorekeeper of course; one of those upstarts who know nothing at all about books; who handle them as pure merchandise, purchased at so much and sold for forty and five per cent more, regardless of actual value.[…]” 1923, Roy J[udson] Snell, ““That Was the Man””, in The Secret Mark (Adventure Stories for Girls), Chicago, Ill.: The Reilly & Lee Co., pages 201–202:
   • Had enough of free-floating, unmoored, egocentric talk of ‘spirituality’? One gets the impression that theological bookstorekeeper Farrington has. 1999, Book Review Digest, volume 94, page 481, column 1:
   • Occupation (all commands) […] Civilians […] Bookstorekeeper [No. of individuals] 1 [%] 2.1 […] [Place of birth] Ramādī [Occupation] Bookstorekeeper [Education] Secondary [Class origin] Lower landowning class; son of a small landowner. 1978, Hanna Batatu, The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movements of Iraq: A Study of Iraq’s Old Landed and Commercial Classes and of its Communists, Baʻthists, and Free Officers, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, published 1982, →ISBN, pages 1082 and 1217:
   • Sex crimes are not ordinarily committed in bookstores, and crimes of violence are much more likely to be committed against bookstorekeepers than by them in their shops. 1971, Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of the State of California, page 664:

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Synonyms

bookshopkeeper