notebookish

adj

Etymology

From notebook + -ish.

  1. inherited from *bōks
  2. inherited from *bōk
  3. inherited from bōc
  4. inherited from bok
  5. compounded as notebook — “note + book
  6. suffixed as notebookish — “notebook + ish

Definitions

  1. Characteristic of jottings in a notebook, rather than a finished artistic work.

    • In some of the poems which discuss her predicament openly, the writing goes flat and notebookish.
    • So it's not merely that Ioannou is using notebookish, intellectually inert, ashen-phrased poems to secure her insights about poetry; she's also using the face-value ideas of prosody to launder mediocre Canadian poetry into art.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for notebookish. 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