bookie

noun2

1. •
   (informal) A bookmaker, being a person who, or business which, takes bets from the general public on sporting events and similar.
2. •
   (rare) Diminutive of book.

   • […] although I had not felt the power of the truth on my own heart, yet I took particular care to read all the little bookies before I put them into the hands of the children. — 1852