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bookly

The English word “bookly” has 2 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Of or pertaining to books; literary.
  2. Learned from books; bookish; by-the-book.

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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