booksy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]booksy (comparative more booksy, superlative most booksy)
- (informal) Pertaining to books.
- 1948, Dan Wickenden, Tobias Brandywine:
- "I feel that a book shop should be more, well, booksy."
- 1955, John Innes Mackintosh Stewart, The guardians:
- "Booksy talk?" Quail was amused by this not entirely felicitous apology. "But my dear young man, you were as booksy as any of us...
- (informal) Inclined to read books; literate.
- 1972, John Braine, The queen of a distant country:
- And he wasn't booksy and didn't pretend to be: he cheerfully admitted to reading no books except the occasional thriller.