booklingn.
/ˈbʊklɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbʊklɪŋ/ Now rare.
A little book.
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society > communication > book > kind of book > size of book > [noun] > small book
libel1382
livreta1450
pamphlet1496
pocketbook1617
bookling1782
bookie1787
tomelet1839
volumette1857
booklet1859
1782 J. Elphinston tr. Martial Epigrams iii. lxxvii. 170 If, averse to the coping, I still appear long; Read me less, and I shrink to a bookling, with ease.
1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 12 656 The dainty booklings of our poetesses.
1881 Athenæum 26 Mar. 425/3 The curious booklings which Elyot saw through the press during his lifetime.
1965 Philos. Rev. 74 390 The bookling is hard to summarize because, with its enormous subject, it is already very summary.
2004 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 7 June 4 These aren't real books, they're ‘booklings’—commercial confections passing themselves off as novels.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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