Names for people who #read a lot

Posted by: bluesyemre | June 28, 2020

Names for people who #read a lot

Reading horse (Danish)
Ink drinker (French)
Read-rat (German)
Library mouse (Romanian)
Book flea (Indonesian)
Bookworm (English)
Igi ìwé (book tree) Yoruba
bookworm in Danish (bogorm)
in Italian: “topo di biblioteca”
In Portuguese is the same: “rato de biblioteca”
The library mouse! (Șoarece de bibliotecă)
Bookworm /book insect in Chinese 书虫 (shuchong)
书虫 is a loan word from English. The Chinese one probably should be 书痴 (book addict) or 书呆子 (with slight negative meaning)
책벌레 bookbug (Korean)
Book swallower (Welsh)
It’s book moth in Hungarian
Book catepillar (Finnish)
Book moth, book swallower, study horse (if reading a lot for study) (Swedish)
Reading maggot in Finnish
Book moth in Polish
Same in Czech – knihomol
Book insect (Hindi – kitaab ka kida)
Bookeater (βιβλιοφάγος) in Greek
Book rat in Lithuanian
Letters-wounded (Catalan)
Bookslut in Paraguay
Word-fiddler in Ukraine
Page mage in Zamgrebia
Word wasp in Tropeqque
Reading larvae in Finnish
Kitaabi keera (book insect-Urdu)
Bookworm in Turkish
Raamatukoi – Book Moth – Estonian
In Tamil language, (hails from South of India, in Tamil Nadu), it’s புத்தக புழு. Romanised Tamil: Puththaka Puloo. Meaning, bookworm

Names for people who read a lot:

6. Bookworm (English)
5. Book flea (Indonesian)
4. Library mouse (Romanian)
3. Read-rat (German)
2. Ink drinker (French)
1. Reading horse (Danish)

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