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

[natasha_jay@tech.lgbt]

Names for avid readers 📚 by language (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

[stephanie@ottawa.place]

@Natasha_Jay In Québec French: Rat de bibliothèque (library rat)

[benjamin@piaille.fr]

@stephanie @Natasha_Jay
Also, I never heard "ink drinker" in French, but library rat, yes ;)
(I'm French)

[ainali@social.coop]

@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 :)

[asweetgentleman@mstdn.social]

@benjamin @stephanie @Natasha_Jay Same.
Ink drinker sounds like a very old expression. Most French people would say library rat.

[timtfj@mastodon.social]

@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.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@aSweetGentleman @benjamin @stephanie @Natasha_Jay it's library rat in Italian too (topo di biblioteca)

(EDIT: technically it's mouse, not a rat.)

[jt_rebelo@ciberlandia.pt]

@oblomov and Portuguese (rato de biblioteca) @aSweetGentleman @benjamin @stephanie @Natasha_Jay