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 ...
Another entry in the bestselling, Merda! series, this humorous book helps readers navigate the world of real Low German. Scheisse! introduces readers to the fine art of cursing and basic slang to spice up their German speech. On-air radio giveaways.
Visceral, raw, and - above all - utterly filthy, The Big Book of Filth is an ideal companion for the lexically incorrect, and the perfect gift for those who worry that their vocabulary of sexual vulgarism is limited to such oft-used terms as cock, knob, tits and wanking. Here are hundreds of words and phrases you didn't know, some you probably ...
Here is the complete guide to vulgarismo--the key to understanding Spanish as it is really spoken--from basic vocabulary to fanciful colloquialisms, from hardcore curses to pithy epithets for all occasions. The survival guide for everyone who has ever wanted to learn real Spanish. Line drawings.
At last, a humorous, uncensored language guide to the colorful slang and rude colloquialisms that are so essential to a true understanding of everyday Italian. For the first time, all those words and phrases that were deemed off-color for the classroom are included in one volume.
The author of the widely acclaimed book about good words, A Dictionary Of Euphemisms And Other Doubletalk, returns with the other side of the story in this witty, anecdote-filled guide to the many bad words with which the English language is blessed.
The Japanese are known for their polite discourse and deferential demeanor, but there's another side to the language of the land of the rising sun--and every one of its biting curses, scathing slanders, and frustration-venting expressions is captured here in this priceless repertoire of "colorful" Japanese expressions. 16 line drawings.
Shakespeare's Bawdy must rank as one of the great Eric Partridge's most outstanding accomplishments. In it Partridge, regarded by Anthony Burgess as 'a human lexicographer, like Samuel Johnson', was able to combine his detailed knowledge of Shakespeare with his unrivalled knowledge of Elizabethan slang and innuendo. It is, as he describes it, 'a ...
Kenneth Gross explores Shakespeare's deep fascination with dangerous and disorderly forms of speaking--especially rumor, slander, insult, vituperation, and curse--and through them offers a vision of the work of words in his plays. Coriolanus's taunts or Lear's curses force us to think not just about how Shakespeare's characters speak, but also ...
For author Sterling Johnson, swearing is essential to effective communication. With this in mind, he developed a guidebook that teaches readers how to cure effectively in detail, with numerous examples taken from everyday life. Like its predecessor, English As A Second F*cking Language, the guide teaches non-native speakers the basics of swearing ...
This bawdy compendium of colorful language, humorous insults, and wicked jokes has the funniest, most imaginative, and crudest verbalizations you'll find--the very best (or worst!) of the fruits of Aman's 28 years of research into maledicta (Latin for naughty words). A good-natured inquiry into bad expressions.
For anyone looking to communicate effectively and impressively in Russian, "Dermo!" provides the essential vocabulary and anecdotes on such subjects as sex, politics, business, and literature. A humorous guide to everyday Russian, "Dermo!" is replete with words, idioms, and phrases, including vulgarisms, never used in literary classics but always ...
Do men use bad language more than women? How do social class and the use of bad language interact? Do young speakers use bad language more frequently than older speakers? Using the spoken section of the British National Corpus, "Swearing in English" explores questions such as these and considers at length the historical origins of modern attitudes ...
This is the only encyclopedia and social history of swearing and foul language in the English-speaking world. It covers the various social dynamics that generate swearing, foul language, and insults in the entire range of the English language. While the emphasis is on American and British English, the different major global varieties, such as ...
Fans of the top-selling foul language guide Mierda have been screaming Mas!. Now author Frances de Talavera Berger obliges, with this new collection of Spanish hard-core curses, colorful colloquialisms, and superb slang for those who wish to master streetwise Spanish.
Here, in one convenient, comprehensive volume is the complete story of the word still considered the most vulgar utterance in the English language. You guessed it--it's the word that is vigilantly bleeped on network TV and virtuously shushed in mixed company. This book contains page after page of actual, uncensored examples of the word in all its ...
The only thing more embarrassing than being called a dirty word is not knowing what it means. Since the four-letter words of our forefathers now seem almost prim, startling combinations of the old favorites and even completely new vulgarities have been created for those occasions when you care enough to say something truly offensive. This guide ...
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