booky
Americanadjective
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very interested in or devoted to books and reading; bookish.
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relating to books or their production, sale, or storage; full of books; making or selling books.
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like a book or evocative of the kind of thing one reads about in books; having a literary air.
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characteristic of a specified kind of book (used in combination, especially in comic-booky).
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Like many booky children, I grew up with three options: science fiction, fantasy and Blyton.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 3, 2019
It should be no surprise that director Zack Snyder's style for the film is simultaneously murky and full of crisp color — it's really quite comic booky, in a way.
From The Verge ● Apr. 24, 2015
Does that sort of detail make my booky wook any less leaden?
From The Guardian ● Oct. 4, 2010
"Well, a booky as big almost as a haystack; I have put up two bottles of the gillyflower water for Mrs. Sedley, and the receipt for making it, in Amelia's box."
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
I handle the books, place them, record dates, handle books again, place them, record dates, handle books again—the very smell of the booky atmosphere is sickening to me.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
In books there always are two ways out of secret rooms, and this," he added cheerfully, "is the bookiest thing that's happened to us yet.
From The Wonderful Bed by Gertrude Knevels
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