▪ I. ˈbookie1 Sc.
buikie, bukie (y).
A small book.
| 1860 Ramsay Remin. Ser. i. (ed. 7) 110 Before ye dee, ye should burn a' your wee bukies. |
▪ II. bookie2
(ˈbʊkɪ)
Also booky.
Colloquial modification [see -y6] of book-maker 3.
| 1885 Eng. Illustr. Mag. Apr. 509/2 No rowdy ring, but a few quiet and well-known ‘bookies’, who were ready enough to lay the odds to a modest fiver. 1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 15 Sept. 5/1 Both played their parts so well that they collared both the ‘bookies’ without any trouble at all. 1934 Saroyan Daring Young Man (1935) 219 Red, the bookie-clerk..had been stabbed by a crazy Russian who had lost twenty dollars on the ponies. 1949 N. Algren in Penguin New Writing XXXVI. 95 A tavern with a bookie in the back. 1968 Times 15 Nov. 16/2 One of his thirties-style bookie check suits. |