book-ghoul
book-ghoul noun: person who vandalizes books by ripping their pages out and stealing them.
Noun
book-ghoul (plural book-ghouls)
- Person who vandalizes books by ripping their pages out and stealing them.
- There is a thievish nature more hateful than the biblioklept. The Book-Ghoul is he who combines the larceny of the biblioklept with the abominable wickedness of breaking up and mutilating the volumes from which he steals.1881, Andrew Lang, The Library, page 56
- I bought the text of the volume on bulbs for a dollar. It had been priced at a hundred dollars before some book-ghoul tore out the fifty-eight plates to use as decorations for lamp shades and scrap baskets.1959 January 25, Elizabeth Lawrence, edited by Bill Neal, Through the Garden Gate, →ISBN, page 5
Forms of book-ghoul
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Questions about book-ghoul
- What does book-ghoul mean?
- Book-ghoul means person who vandalizes books by ripping their pages out and stealing them.
- What part of speech is book-ghoul?
- Book-ghoul is a noun.
- What is the plural of book-ghoul?
- The plural of book-ghoul is book-ghouls.
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