bookalike
English
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editbookalike (plural bookalikes)
- (informal) Something which closely resembles a book in some way.
- 2013 May 1, Tom Carter, “Shanghai Girls Gone Copy-Catty”, in HuffPost[1], archived from the original on 2023-09-25:
- We can therefore extend the benefit of the doubt to all the Shanghai girls, babies, dolls, etc. out there for their bookalikes, and even for their catty copycatting, though one hopes that, for the sake of the genre, China's banal book title formula of [CITY NAME] + [GENDER-SPECIFIC SOBRIQUET] will soon fall out of fashion.
- 2020 November 25, Annalisa Merelli, “Book covers”, in Quartz[3], archived from the original on 2023-06-17:
- But if words and images within the pages give books their value, covers transform them into something more. That something is the reason we like to display books in our homes, why furniture stores make sure their shelves have books (or bookalikes), or why selling books by the foot is a sustainable—in fact, lucrative—proposition.
- 2023 March 2, Andy Robinson, “Boy, 3, stuns schoolmates by dressing as Prince Harry for World Book Day”, in The US Sun[4], London: News Group Newspapers Limited, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-10:
- Harry's bookalike
Usage notes
edit- The term is very rare and is not always used with a consistent definition.
References
edit- Paul McFedries (1996–2024) “bookalike”, in Word Spy, Logophilia Limited.