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booksy en · ADJ

Etymology

From books + -y.

Meanings

1. (informal) Pertaining to books.
   • "Booksy talk?" Quail was amused by this not entirely felicitous apology. "But my dear young man, you were as booksy as any of us... 1955, John Innes Mackintosh Stewart, The guardians:
   • "I feel that a book shop should be more, well, booksy." 1948, Dan Wickenden, Tobias Brandywine:
2. (informal) Inclined to read books; literate.
   • And he wasn't booksy and didn't pretend to be: he cheerfully admitted to reading no books except the occasional thriller. 1972, John Braine, The queen of a distant country:

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