bookish /'bukij; 'bukiJ/ adj of books and studies: 書的; 讀書的： a ~ person, one who gives much time to reading; 花很多時間證書的人; 好膜書的人; ~ expressions, found in books but not colloquial; 書中的 (非口語的) 辭句; 迂腐的辭句; a ~ style, literary, not colloquial. 文縊縊的 (非口語的) 文體。~ - ness n