| 单词 | book-shy |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbook-shy book-shy adj. reluctant or unwilling to read books. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > want of learning, illiteracy > [adjective] > not studious unliterate1548 unbookisha1616 unbooklearned1633 unscholastic1690 unreading1728 bookless1734 unliterary1788 unbooked1859 non-literate1891 book-shy1902 1902 A. H. Lewis Wolfville Days xiii. 199 I'm simply born book-shy, an' is terrified at schools from my cradle. 1941 V. Woolf Between Acts 26 Book-shy she was..and gun-shy too. 2011 M. Cart Young Adult Lit. ii. vii. 97 The normally book-shy mass media ate all this up and hyped Harry [Potter] relentlessly. < as lemmas |
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