different between textbooky vs textbook

English

textbook +? -y

textbooky (comparative more textbooky, superlative most textbooky)

text +? book

textbook (plural textbooks)

A coursebook, a formal manual of instruction in a specific subject, especially one for use in schools or colleges.

textbook (comparative more textbook, superlative most textbook)

Of or pertaining to textbooks or their style, especially in being dry and pedagogical; textbooky, textbooklike.
- 2000, Okasha El Daly, Janet Starkey, Desert travellers: from Herodotus to T.E. Lawrence
  They are mentioned in his flat, textbook voice, alongside schoolroom descriptions of topography and assessments of economic significance.
Having the typical characteristics of some class of phenomenon, so that it might be included as an example in a textbook.
- 2003, Robert J Art, Patrick M Cronin, The United States and coercive diplomacy
  In many ways the Korean nuclear crisis is a textbook example of coercive diplomacy — its strengths as well as the risks inherent in such a strategy.

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