bookmaker
noun/ˈbʊkmeɪkə/UK/ˈbɵkmɛjkə//ˈbʊkmeɪkɚ/US
Etymology
From Middle English bokmakere, boke maker, equivalent to book + maker. The gambling term came from the archaic phrase make book or make a book, used in 19th century England.
- inherited from bokmakere
Definitions
A person who prints or binds books.
A person who compiles books from the writings of others.
A person (or a business) who calculates odds and accepts bets, especially on horse racing
A person (or a business) who calculates odds and accepts bets, especially on horse racing; a bookie.
The neighborhood
- neighbormake a book
- neighborsportsbook
- neighborbetting shop
- neighborbookbinding
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for bookmaker. 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