Booking It

Urban dictionary was no help on the 3 book words, except for this bit of localized British slang:

Merriam-Webster’s entry for booky just says it’s a synonym for bookish.

The “Book ‘Em Danno” meme doesn’t seem helpful in deciphering Lawton’s wordplay, either.

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  1. Unknown's avatar

    Something that’s X-y is slightly more X than something that’s X-ish. Start with the perfectly normal word “bookish” and you get this sequence.

  2. Unknown's avatar

    Yeah, I think it’s a sequence like DemetriosX says but I can’t think of any adjective that works with both -ish and -y as mitigators.

  3. Unknown's avatar

    Bookish: A young reader with glasses that would rather read then go outside.

    Booky: A fan of Books, no age or gender?

    Fully Book: Mature reading matter?

  4. Unknown's avatar

    When it is short for bookmaker (the fellow who takes bets), I think bookie is spelled only that way, and would look odd as booky.

  5. Unknown's avatar


    Back in the early early days of Amazon, there was a reviewer I recall who would troll the review pages of various books with 5 star reviews exuberantly describing them as “Verrrrrrrry Booky!”

    I laughed back then, but I was a much younger fellow.

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