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Meanings of bookish type in English

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Usage of bookish type in English
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But this singer is hardly the bookish type.
Ebony
2
I mean, she'll say she was a secretary, but don't suppose that implies a Greek bookish type.
Venus In Copper
3
Everyone thought of the warden's wife as a quiet, bookish type, but, at the same time, spread stories about her sexual expertise.
The new yorker
4
He was a bookish type himself, and was forever trying to engage me in conversation about the books he saw in my mother's kitchen.
The new yorker
5
And Amazon in particular hasn't traditionally engendered much goodwill with bookish types.
NY Magazine
6
"You know, I would never have guessed you to be the bookish type."
Shadowlight
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Hamlet, hero of brooding bookish types the world over, offers this exemplar of the "Don't worry, you'll get yours" genre:
Bardisms
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