Bookie vs Booke - What's the difference?
bookie | booke |
(informal) A bookmaker, being a person who, or business which, takes bets from the general public on sporting events and similar.
* {{quote-book, year=1592, author=R. G., title=The Third And Last Part Of Conny-Catching. (1592), chapter=, edition=
, passage=TO ALL SVCH AS HAVE receiued either pleasure or profite by the two former published bookes of this Argument: And to all beside, that desire to know the wonderfull slie deuises of this hellish crew of Conny-catchers. ] }}
* {{quote-book, year=1594, author=Christopher Marlowe, title=Massacre at Paris, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Scene 10: Enter five or sixe Protestants with bookes , and kneele together. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1606, author=Anonymous, title=A Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. III, chapter=Sir Gyles Goosecappe, edition=
, passage=Now in good truth I wood theis bookes were burnd That rapp men from their friends before their time, How does my uncles friend, no other name I need give him, to whom I give my selfe. }}
As nouns the difference between bookie and booke
is that bookie is a bookmaker, being a person who, or business which, takes bets from the general public on sporting events and similar while booke is an archaic spelling of lang=en.bookie
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* turf accountantbooke
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