bookish
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bookish
- /ˈbʊkɪʃ/ UK, US
- /ˈbɵkɪʃ/ British, Southern, Standard
- /ˈbʊkəʃ/ Australia, New Zealand
- /ˈbʉkɪʃ/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
- /ˈbuːkɪʃ/
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Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂ǵosder.?
Proto-Indo-European *bʰeh₂g-der.?
Proto-Germanic *bōks
Proto-West Germanic *bōk
Old English bōc
Middle English bok
English book
Proto-Indo-European *-iskos
Proto-Germanic *-iskaz
Proto-West Germanic *-isk
Old English -isċ
Middle English -isch
English -ish
English bookish
From book + -ish.
adjective more bookish · most bookish
- Fond of reading or studying, especially said of someone lacking social skills as a result. From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. […] This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer, though he had already one son (James) of that profession.
- Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books. Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, […]
