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Tome vs Booksy - What's the difference?

tome | booksy |

As a proper noun tome

is thomas (given name).

As an adjective booksy is

(informal) pertaining to books.

tome

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One in a series of volumes.
  • A large or scholarly book.
    • The professor pulled a dusty old tome from the bookshelf.

    Anagrams

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    booksy

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) Pertaining to books.
  • * 1948 , Dan Wickenden, Tobias Brandywine
    • "I feel that a book shop should be more, well, booksy ."
  • * 1955 , John Innes Mackintosh Stewart, The guardians
    • "Booksy talk?" Quail was amused by this not entirely felicitous apology. "But my dear young man, you were as booksy as any of us...
  • (informal) Inclined to read books; literate.
  • * 1972 , John Braine, The queen of a distant country
    • And he wasn't booksy and didn't pretend to be: he cheerfully admitted to reading no books except the occasional thriller.