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- noun A
short -length orcompact book , typically under one hundredpages .
Etymologies
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book + -ling
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Examples
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Bumpass, the younger member of this firm of tradeworthy tradesmen, I procured it at a cost of ninety cents, and here and now I devote you, little bookling, to your future usages.
Fibble, D.D. Tony Sarg 1910
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The book -- or bookling, for it consisted but of one small demy-octavo volume -- was not such as delighted his friends either at Littlebath or at Oxford, or even at those two Hampshire parsonages.
The Bertrams Anthony Trollope 1848
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