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booklegger

noun

Etymology

Blend of book + bootlegger.

  1. derived from *lagjaz✻
  2. derived from leggr — “leg, calf, bone of the arm or leg, hollow tube, stalk”
  3. inherited from leg
  4. compounded as bootleg — “boot + leg”
  5. formed as bootlegger — “bootleg + -er”
  6. compounded as booklegger — “book + bootlegger”

Definitions

  1. An illicit publisher or distributor of banned publications.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for booklegger. 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