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Author: Erin McKean
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 0195159055
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLists the meaning of hundreds of bizarre and unusual words and includes a guide to coining new words.
Author: Erin McKean
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-10-23
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 0199886032
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDo you know what a snollygoster is? Would you eat something called a muktuk? Do you know anyone who engages in onolatry? Impress your friends and pepper your dinner party conversations with such nuggets as gobemouche, mumpsimus, and cachinnate. You can learn about all of these bizarre and beautiful words and many more in Totally Weird and Wonderful Words. Offering a potpourri of colorful and fascinating words compiled by noted lexicographer Erin McKean, it contains hundreds of definitions, and has been updated to include two new essays, with over 150 words new to this edition. Written in a clear and conversational style, the book contains full-page cartoon illustrations by Roz Chast and Danny Shanahan. Featuring hundreds of words guaranteed to amuse and astonish, this is a book that will appeal to logophiles everywhere. It also features a bibliography of Oxford's dictionaries and a guide to creating your own unusual words correctly from Greek and Latin roots.
Author: Josefa Heifetz
Publisher:
Published: 2002-07-31
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781567315547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Phil Cousineau
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-03-15
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1573445509
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWho knew that the great country of Canada is named for a mistake? How about "bedswerver," the best Elizabethan insult to hurl at a cheating boyfriend? By exploring the delightful back stories of the 250 words in Wordcatcher, readers are lured by language and entangled in etymologies. Author Phil Cousineau takes us on a tour into the obscure territory of word origins with great erudition and endearing curiosity. The English poet W. H. Auden was once asked to teach a poetry class, and when 200 students applied to study with him, he only had room for 20 of them. When asked how he chose his students, he said he picked the ones who actually loved words. So too, with this book — it takes a special wordcatcher to create a treasure chest of remarkable words and their origins, and any word lover will relish the stories that Cousineau has discovered.
Author: Jane Solomon
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Published: 2019-05-02
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 1786038102
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is a bumbershoot? Or a moonbow? And what does it mean when someone absquatulates...? Find out all this and more in The Dictionary of Difficult Words. Test your knowledge with more than 400 words to amaze, confuse, and inspire budding wordsmiths (and adults). All of the words featured in this book are difficult to spell, hard to say, and their meanings are obscure to most children (and most adults)! Written with simple, easy-to-understand definitions by lexicographer Jane Solomon, this dictionary celebrates the beauty of the English language for family trivia time spent around the printed page.
Author: Paul Hellweg
Publisher:
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780715390399
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: George Stone Saussy
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the 1984 Oxter English Dictionary, with a substantial appendix of newer words. Literary words are defined and used in context from the fiction of best-selling and less-selling writers published from 1945 to the present. Over 1300 words are defined using examples from 200 novels by 90 authors. No pronunciation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Josefa Heifetz Byrne
Publisher: Skyhorse
Published: 2012-07-01
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781616086503
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom aasvogel (the South African vulture) to knurry (full of knots), from melangeur (a machine for making chocolate syrup) to zumbooruk (a small cannon fired from the back of a camel), the words in this book are guaranteed to expand your vocabulary and confound your friends. They may be obscure and even preposterous, but every entry in this eye-opening book has been accepted as a formal or legitimate English word by at least one major dictionary. This dictionary does not claim or attempt to be complete. It is based completely on the editor’s sense of wonder and absurdity. It is educational, yes, but also more fun than any dictionary has a right to be!
Author: Yee-Lum Mak
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2016-10-11
Total Pages: 62
ISBN-13: 1452163111
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover words to surprise, delight, and enamor. Learn terms for the sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees, for dancing awkwardly but with relish, and for the look shared by two people who each wish the other would speak first. Other-Wordly is an irresistible ebook for lovers of words and those lost for words alike.
Author: David Bukszpan
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: 2012-09-19
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1452108242
DOWNLOAD EBOOKScrabble® aficionados may know that both "Brr" and "Brrr" are legitimate plays, but what about everyday names like Peter, Carl, and Marge? They're not listed as proper nouns, but they are certainly playable. For lovers of Scrabble®, Bananagrams®, and Words with Friends®, this lively guide helps readers make the most out of word games, packed with new ways to remember the best words alongside tips for improving game play and much more. Part strategy guide and part celebration of all things wordy, this collection of facts, tips, and surprising lists of playable words will instruct and delight the letterati.
