With sharp wit, sheer delight, and a keen eye, Shea shares his year inside the "Oxford English Dictionary," delivering a hair-pulling, eye-crossing account of reading every word, and revealing the most obscure, hilarious, and wonderful gems he discovers along the way.
Poke through this collection of obscure, offensive insults, zingers, and comebacks culled from the dusty heap of discarded words and stumble across a vocabulary that will equip you to tell your scombroid (resembling a mackerel) boss he's a tumbrel of a superior (a person drunk to the point of vomiting). This edition combines two distinct ...
From the scatologically inclined word-hounds who wrote "Depraved English" comes a compendium of hilarious, unsavory, off-color words people never knew they needed but won't be able to do without.
'If you are interested in vocabulary that is both spectacularly useful and beautifully useless, read on. I have read the "OED" so you don't have to!' Weighing in at 137 pounds, the "Oxford English Dictionary" is the word lover's Everest and the world's most exhaustive and exhausting dictionary - for instance, there are over 60,000 words on the ...
This work collects over 300 rarely used and unimaginable words. Here is a cornucopia of peculiar appetites, unusual afflictions, unseemly secretions, ill-advised habits and strange farm practices. For example, need to drop a hint about a friend's "maschalephidrosis" (runaway armpit perspiration)?
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