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bookable
  • s  subject to being reserved or booked
    all seats bookable in advance
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bonny
  • s  very pleasing to the eye
    my bonny lass
    there's a bonny bay beyond
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bony
  • s  very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
    emaciated bony hands
  • a  composed of or containing bone
  • a  having bones especially many or prominent bones
    a bony shad fillet
    her bony wrist
    bony fish
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booked
  • v  engage for a performance
    Her agent had booked her for several concerts in Tokyo
  • v  arrange for and reserve (something for someone else) in advance
    The agent booked tickets to the show for the whole family
  • v  record a charge in a police register
    The policeman booked her when she tried to solicit a man
  • v  register in a hotel booker
  • s  reserved in advance
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bookish
  • s  characterized by diligent study and fondness for reading
    a bookish farmer who always had a book in his pocket
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boolean
  • a  of or relating to a combinatorial system devised by George Boole that combines propositions with the logical operators AND and OR and IF THEN and EXCEPT and NOT
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booming
  • v  make a resonant sound, like artillery
  • v  hit hard
  • v  be the case that thunder is being heard
  • v  make a deep hollow sound
  • v  grow vigorously
    business is booming
  • s  very lively and profitable
  • s  used of the voice
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boon
  • n  a desirable state
    a spanking breeze is a boon to sailors
  • s  very close and convivial
    boon companions
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boorish
  • s  ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance
    was boorish and insensitive
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booted
  • v  kick; give a boot to
  • v  cause to load (an operating system) and start the initial processes
  • s  wearing boots
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