bookmakingn.
/ˈbʊkˌmeɪkɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbʊkˌmeɪkɪŋ/ 1. The writing or compilation of books, esp. (depreciative) in a mechanical or perfunctory manner. Cf. bookmaker n. 2. Now rare.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > [noun] > compiling (a work)
compilationc1430
bookmakingc1450
compiling1487
compilement1656
book-building1782
scissoring1822
c1450 (c1405) Mum & Sothsegger (BL Add. 41666) (1936) l. 1281 (MED) Sith þou felys þe fressh, lete no feynt herte Abate þy blessid bisynes of þy boke-making.
1487 in J. M. Cowper Accts. Churchwardens St. Dunstan's, Canterbury (?1886) 9 John Thomas and John Casse hathe delyueryd of the stock of the Crosse lyghte to the booke makyng iijs. iiijd.
1588 ‘M. Marprelate’ Oh read ouer D. Iohn Bridges: Epitome f. 1v Note here a new founde manner of bookemaking.
1614 S. Latham Falconry Ded. I am not so well experienced in the art of book-making.
1798 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit.: Pt. IV. (ed. 5) 328 It is mere book-making, beneath the character of such a gentleman as Doctor Warton.
1807 Cabinet 1 113 This is a fine book-making age.
1856 in K. H. Digby Lover's Seat II. xviii. 222 Of all the books in this book-making world the philosophical books are the least intelligible.
1865 Englishman's Mag. Sept. 220 Bookmaking now has got a bad name, or at any rate the term is used in a bad sense.
1989 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 May 510/3 Exceedingly Nietzsche..is a shameless piece of book-making, largely the proceedings of a conference held in Warwick in 1984.
2. The manufacture of books (as material articles).
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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > [noun]
booking1626
book-building1772
book manufacture1809
bookmaking1824
bibliopoesy1832
bibliogony1835
bookcraft1840
1824 J. Clare in Nat. Hist. Prose Writings (1983) 183 It displays the art of book making in half fill'd pages & fine paper.
1899 T. Veblen Theory of Leisure Class vi. 162 Artistic book-making.
1930 Publishers' Weekly 5 Apr. 1892/1 The increasing attention that the book-trade is giving to the art of book-making.
2004 J. Cambras Compl. Art Bookbinding 108/1 Blind tooling has been around longer than bookmaking and has been used to decorate books since their inception.
3. The action of taking bets, calculating odds, and paying out winnings; the trade of a bookmaker (bookmaker n. 3).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > book-making
bookmaking1824
handbooking1898
street-bookmaking1907
1824 Sporting Mag. 15 n.s. 51/2 Betting at present proceeds but slowly..what is done consists merely in book-making and speculation.
1836 R. S. Surtees in A. Mathews Mem. C. Mathews (1839) IV. ix. 184 He entered into the spirit and excitement of the thing with the true ardour of a turfite, without any knowledge however of the science of book-making.
1886 Boston (Mass.) Herald 16 July In England, book-making is rigidly prohibited elsewhere, but on the race tracks it is allowed.
1944 Life 15 May 14/2 The fields include gambling, bookmaking, night clubs, towel-renting to Loop hotels..maintenance of cigaret and other vending machines, brewing, bottled water and, in season, operating slot machines.
2006 D. G. Schwartz Roll Bones xv. 353 Swimming against the antibookmaking tide, Nevada in 1903 legalized bookmaking on horse racing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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