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notebookish en · ADJ

Etymology

From notebook + -ish.

Meanings

1. Characteristic of jottings in a notebook, rather than a finished artistic work.
   • So it's not merely that Ioannou is using notebookish, intellectually inert, ashen-phrased poems to secure her insights about poetry; she's also using the face-value ideas of prosody to launder mediocre Canadian poetry into art. 2004, Carmine Starnino, A Lover's Quarrel: Essays and Reviews, page 100:
   • In some of the poems which discuss her predicament openly, the writing goes flat and notebookish. 1991, Stand Magazine, volume 33, page 56:

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