Names for avid readers 📚 by language (more and more, in the replies👇)

Natasha 🇪🇺

Names for avid readers by language (more and more, in the replies)

English/Dutch: Bookworm / Boekenwurm

Danish: Reading horse (Lesehest)

French: Ink drinker (Buveur d'encre)

German: Read-rat (Leseratte)

Indonesian: Book flea (Kutu buku)

Romanian: Library mouse (Șoarece de bibliotecă)

Norwegian: Reading horse (Lesehest)

Serbian/Polish: Book moth (Knjiški moljac / Mól książkowy)

Greek: Bookeater (βιβλιοφάγος)

Finnish: Reading maggot (Lukutoukka)

Swedish: Read-louse (Läslus)

Vietnamese: Bookwormweevil (Mọt sách)

#books #reading

Jan Ainali

@Natasha_Jay much more common in Swedish is book moth (bokmal). It's also more fun since it's a pun. Mala is the verb for grind, so you are grinding books

Tim J

@ainali @Natasha_Jay judging from NAOB,¹ Norwegian has
• bokmøll (book moth), which they say is infrequent and define as
• bokorm (bookworm), which also points to
• lesehest (reading-horse).
(See https://naob.no/ordbok/bokm%C3%B8ll and follow the links from one entry to the next.)

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¹ Det Norske Akademis ordbok, which gives Bokmål forms.

TrèsFluke

@Natasha_Jay "Ink drinker" from the French is fucking lit. Can't get more visual than that, other than 'page eater'