What is the difference between jibiki and jisho?


I see both of these words used to describe dictionary.

Can someone tell me the difference between these two?




[字引]{じび}き sounds old-fashioned to me, although everyone (except very young
children) would probably know what it means. I think I've heard very old
people (like, over 80 years old?) use the word 字引き to refer to both J-J and
E-J/J-E dictionaries.

I think [辞書]{じしょ} is the most common word to refer to dictionary. Most
J-J/E-J/J-E dictionaries that I've seen are titled 「～～[辞典]{じてん}」, eg
『小学館プログレッシブ和英中辞典』『ジーニアス英和辞典（大修館書店）』『明鏡国語辞典（大修館書店）』 etc., but we usually refer
to these dictionaries as 辞書 in daily conversation.

... But you'd still say [生]{い}き字引き, not 生き辞書, to mean "a walking dictionary".

