Definitions for bookie

bookie book·ie

Spelling: [boo k-ee]
IPA: /ˈbʊk i/

Bookie is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in bookie (beikoo).

Definitions for bookie

noun

  1. bookmaker (def 1).

Origin of bookie

First recorded in 1880-85; book(maker) + -ie

Examples for bookie

Such determination on so young a face the bookie thought he had never seen.

That single afternoon would thus bring me in five hundred thousand pounds—provided the bookie did not blow his brains out.

This makes you an 'Investment Counselor, short-term transactions only,' and removes from you the odious nomenclature of 'bookie.'

For instance, have you ever heard of Percy Pook, the bookie?

Then he returned to the Paddock, passing a bookie with uplifted hand of protest.

Does the bookie ask you how much coin you have and if you can afford to lose it?

The bookie looked just once at me, and I'll never forget how his eyebrows went together.

"He's a powerful great horse, Mr. Woodburn," smiled the bookie.

Then I take my savings from the bank and pawn my clothes, and much money goes to the bookie to back Mutton Chop.

"Got you, sonny," said the bookie, and bolted with a half-hearted grin.

Word Value for bookie
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

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