Word of the Day for Thursday, November 17, 2011
bibliophage \BIB-lee-uh-feyj\, noun:
An ardent reader; a bookworm.
The B.O. is a well known bibliophage of anything with a socialist-Marxist bent!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
You may recall, if you are something of a bibliophage, that the late Sylvia Plath had a story with a similar name.-- Corey Mesler, We Are a Billion-Year-Old Carbon
The borrower, heedless, reckless bibliophage cares nothing about all this; into the midst of these learned pleasures he leaps like a fox into a hen-roost; he is smitten all at once with an overmastering hunger for reading...”-- Elliot Stock, The Bookworm
Bibliophage derives from the Latin biblio meaning “books” and phage meaning “a thing that devours.”
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