Boobish vs Bookish - What's the difference?
boobish | bookish |
Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with people; learned from books.
* 1783 , , The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin ?, page 16
Characterized by a method of expression generally found in books.
* 1996 , Helen L. Harrison, Pistoles/Paroles: Money and Language in Seventeenth-century French Comedy? , page 50
As adjectives the difference between boobish and bookish
is that boobish is like a boob; foolish, silly while bookish is given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with people; learned from books.bookish
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. This bookish inclination at length determined my father to make me a printer, though he had already one son (James) of that profession.
- Obviously, neither Corneille nor the characters who laugh at excessively bookish speech avoid literary convention.
