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Bookly

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or pertaining to books; literary.

    "As you received this and many other bookly treasures, all for the small annual fee of one dollar, […]"

  2. 2
    Learned from books; bookish; by-the-book.

    "He has with him his secretary, who speak the Spanish in a very bookly manner."

Etymology

From Middle English *bocli, from Old English bōclīċ (“of or belonging to a book, scientific, biblical, scriptural”); equivalent to book + -ly. Cognate with Danish boglig (“bookish”), Swedish boklig (“bookish, literary”).

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