booksy
adjEtymology From books + -y.
1
Informal Pertaining to books.
- "I feel that a book shop should be more, well, booksy."1948, Dan Wickenden, Tobias Brandywine:
- "Booksy talk?" Quail was amused by this not entirely felicitous apology. "But my dear young man, you were as booksy as any of us...1955, John Innes Mackintosh Stewart, The guardians:
2
Informal Inclined to read books; literate.
- And he wasn't booksy and didn't pretend to be: he cheerfully admitted to reading no books except the occasional thriller.1972, John Braine, The queen of a distant country: