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▪ I. booky, a. colloq.|ˈbʊkɪ|
Characterized by or derived from books; given to books; bookish.
1832Paulding Westward Ho! I. xiii. 194 You're one of the booky fellers, that think on one thing while they are talking about another. 1880Mark Twain Tramp Abr. II. 202 Lessons in morals..which come not of booky teaching, but of experience. 1884Grant Allen Str. Stories 105 Gladys was clever too, though not booky. 1941Masefield Gautama the Enlightened 13 Basil Blackwell's shop..within whose booky house Half England's scholars nibble books or browse.
▪ II. booky
Slang representation of bouquet. Cf. bokay.
1848Thackeray Van. Fair i. 2 ‘We have made her a bow-pot.’ ‘Say a bouquet, sister Jemima, 'tis more genteel.’ ‘Well, a booky as big almost as a hay-stack.’ |