bookalike

noun

Etymology

Blend of book + lookalike.

  1. inherited from ġelīċe
  2. inherited from yliche
  3. inherited from oliche
  4. inherited from onlīċe
  5. inherited from aliche
  6. inherited from *galīkaz
  7. inherited from *galīk
  8. inherited from ġelīċ
  9. inherited from ylich
  10. inherited from onlīċ
  11. inherited from alich
  12. formed as lookalike — “look + alike
  13. compounded as bookalike — “book + lookalike

Definitions

  1. Something which closely resembles a book in some way.

    • Judgement Day for the bookalikes
    • I carefully selected the related titles to ensure that you could have a similar conversation surrounding the bookalikes as you did with the featured book.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bookalike. 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