单词 | bookaholic |
释义 | bookaholicn. colloquial. A habitual and prolific reader; a compulsive book buyer. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > bibliophily or bibliomania > [noun] > person book hunter1740 book lover1756 book collector1776 book fancier1779 bibliomane1809 bibliomaniac1816 bibliomanist1823 bibliophile1824 philobiblist1824 bookwoman1834 bibliomanian1836 bookman1885 bookaholic1965 1965 L. Meyer Customer is Always iii. 44 Just as an alcoholic somehow gets the money to buy his booze, so does a bookaholic somehow get the money to buy his books. 1992 Guardian (Nexis) 14 Aug. 16 No proper bookaholic would dare risk a last-minute scan of airport bookstalls for his or her holiday reading, as the holiday would be ruined without the right books to read. 2003 S. L. Brown Christmas Homecoming (front matter) She is a self-confessed bookaholic and is firmly convinced she has one of the largest ‘To Be Read’ stacks..in the world. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1965 |
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