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A bookie is a : a person, or a shop, that takes your bet — often on a horse race or a match — and pays you if you win. Bookie is the short everyday word; is the fuller one. Informal. In some countries this is a normal high-street job; in others it sits more in the shadows. The “book” in the longer word is the notebook of bets, not a storybook. Though actually, if you only see book + -ie, you might guess “a person who loves books.” That is not what speakers mean.
莊家（賭的那種，尤其賭馬、賭球；不是愛看書的人）
組成A clipping of bookmaker + the friendly ending -ie. (Reading it as book + -ie is how the mix-up starts.)
同家族的字
- bookmakerthe full word that bookie shortens
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bookienoun詞源 1/ˈbʊki/
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informalA bookmaker, being a person who, or business which, takes bets from the general public on sporting events and similar.
- ‘You won’t believe it,’ he [Fitz McGee] said. ‘Those dummies won’t let me scratch! The horse is gonna be odds‐on and I’ve got a chunk bet on him out of town. Never get the bookie call it off this late.’
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。