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pocketbook

noun
/ˈpɒ.kɪt.bʊk/UK/ˈpɑ.kɪtˌbʊk/US

Etymology

1610s, from pocket + book, popularized in its sense as a paperback by the success of Pocket Books in the United States after its 1939 launch.

  1. inherited from *bōks✻
  2. inherited from *bōk✻
  3. inherited from bōc
  4. inherited from bok
  5. compounded as pocketbook — “pocket + book”

Definitions

  1. A purse or handbag.

  2. A wallet for paper money.

  3. One's personal budget or financial capacity

    One's personal budget or financial capacity; the amount one can afford.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A small book, particularly (US) a paperback or (UK) notebook able to fit into a pocket…

      A small book, particularly (US) a paperback or (UK) notebook able to fit into a pocket (of any genre, from reference work to fine art).

      • The publishers brought out small format pocketbooks of the whole of their nature series.
      • The pocket books are in trouble. A creeping extralegal censorship threatens to bowdlerize the product[…]

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Derived

champagne taste on a beer pocketbook, pocketbook issue

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pocketbook. 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