bookwork

[book-wurk]

book·work

[book-wurk]
noun
1.
work or research that requires studying or reading, as distinguished from laboratory experimentation or the like.
2.
bookkeeping or other paperwork necessary to the running of a business.
3.
Printing. work on books or pamphlets, as distinguished from work on newspapers.
Also, book-work.


Origin:
1840–50; book + work; compare Old English bōcweorc study, independently formed from same elements
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Bookwork is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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World English Dictionary
bookwork (ˈbʊkˌwɜːk)
 
1.  the keeping of accounts
2.  learning through the study of books rather than from practical experience

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