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bookly

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Adj — Relating to books; literary.

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Etymology

Bookly came into English from Middle English *bocli, which developed from Old English bōclīċ (“of or belonging to a book, scientific, biblical, scriptural”); it is equivalent to book + -ly. It is cognate with Danish boglig (“bookish”) and Swedish boklig (“bookish, literary”).

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