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bibliosnitch

noun

Etymology

From biblio- + snitch, from snitch (“thief”).

  1. inherited from snīcan — “to creep; crawl”
  2. inherited from sniken
  3. inherited from snacche — “a trap, snare”
  4. prefixed as bibliosnitch — “biblio + snitch”

Definitions

  1. Someone who does not return books after borrowing them.

    • BIBLIOSNITCH: THIS BOOK IS LOANED YOU. READER. TO AMUSE. TO READ, TO TEACH, TO STUDY, NOT ABUSE. DON'T DOG ITS EARS...
    • Are You a Bibliosnitch ?
    • So she was an unregenerate bibliosnitch with jockocratic tendencies. Is anyone Perfect?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bibliosnitch. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA