More re: Query: "book" = leave, run away

Wilson Gray hwgray at EARTHLINK.NET
Wed Jun 23 15:35:01 UTC 2004


FWIW I've always viewed this meaning of "book" as being derived from
BE  onomatopoetic baby-talk "bookity-bookity" (cf. literary
"buckety-buckety"), the sound of the hoofbeats of a running horse.

-Wilson Gray



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