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.

  1. inherited from bokmakere

Definitions

  1. A person who prints or binds books.

  2. A person who compiles books from the writings of others.

  3. 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

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