Interesting Words and Expressions – Book-Bosomed in Students, Teachers, Training & Conferences Comments Off on Interesting Words and Expressions – Book-Bosomed 5,754 views 0 Book-Bosomed describes someone who carries a book at all times. Scottish novelist and poet, Sir Walter Scott, coined the phrase Book-Bosomed. The phrase first appeared in Scott’s celebrated 1805 poem The Lay of the Last Minstrel. tweet