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
Upon a train of incidents, as unconnected as life itself, we are wont to clap a booky ending.
From Adventures in Contentment by Grayson, David
You do speak cowboy talk one minute—and all booky, polite and proper the next, you know.
From Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove
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