Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun As much as a book contains.
- Full of book-knowledge; stuffed with ideas gleaned from books.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun As much as will fill a book; a book full.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun As much as a book
holds . - adjective obsolete Full of book-knowledge; stuffed with ideas gleaned from books.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In the end, Susan Sontag may have been most notable as a photographic subject and for the querulous interview, of which she gave a bookful see "Conversations With Susan Sontag."
A Very Public Intellectual Joseph Epstein 2011
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Jump-start Your Novel with Kitty-cats in Action will have new and expanded material that adds up to a bookful of coaching on the craft of creating compelling fiction.
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Jump-start Your Novel with Kitty-cats in Action will have new and expanded material that adds up to a bookful of coaching on the craft of creating compelling fiction.
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I don't want it either, I've already got a whole bookful of them, wocka wocka wocka.
ana-ng Diary Entry ana-ng 2009
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It required getting up 15 minutes earlier than normal, and anyway, I had accumulated a bookful of dreams to mull over.
Root Beer Dreams: Part I Lindy 2006
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It required getting up 15 minutes earlier than normal , and anyway, I had accumulated a bookful of dreams to mull over.
Americana Lindy 2008
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It required getting up 15 minutes earlier than normal, and anyway, I had accumulated a bookful of dreams to mull over.
Toast: Lindy 2006
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D. Hayworth has now weighed in with his own bookful of border and immigration remedies, titled Whatever It Takes: Illegal Immigration, Border Security, and the War on Terror.
Exodus 2006
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D. Hayworth has now weighed in with his own bookful of border and immigration remedies, titled Whatever It Takes: Illegal Immigration, Border Security, and the War on Terror.
Exodus 2006
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I've never met anyone who's managed to plough through a whole bookful of Rushdie's turgid prose.
Salman Rushdie Does Not Deserve a Knighthood But He Must Keep It 2007
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