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Weird and Wonderful Words is a pot-pourri, a gallimaufry, a salmagundi, a treasure trove of colourful, quirky, and unusual words. Containing hundreds of definitions written in a clear and conversational style, featuring full-page illustrations.
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Weird and Wonderful Words is a pot-pourri, a gallimaufry, a salmagundi, a treasure trove of colourful, quirky, and unusual words. Containing hundreds of definitions written in a clear and conversational style and full-page illustrations which offer a whimsical and hilarious view of our glorious language. Amuse yourself and entertain your friends with your knowledge of who a snollygoster or a Funambulist may be, what a humdudgeon or a nubbingcheat was, or why youmight want to engage in catopromancy. Appendices include a bibliography of Oxford's dictionaries and a guide to creating your own unusual words correctly from Greek and Latin roots. The perfect stockingfiller and gift book, Weird and Wonderful Words is sure to be a favourite of logophiles (word lovers) everywhere.
Author Biography
Erin McKean is the Senior Editor for the Oxford University Press North American Dictionary Program and the Editor of Verbatim magazine.Roz Chast is a staff cartoonist for The New Yorker and the author of more than five books of cartoons.
Review
"Interesting."--School Library Journal "It will undoubtably answer the occasional reference question as well as entertain."--ExLibris "A treasury of colorful and unusual words."--Forecast "A whimsical lexicographical petting zoo."--Copyeditor "Delightful."--Hartford Courant "This book is as wonderful as the weird words in it....Funambulists, seplasiaries, and word lovers everywhere surely will want thisbook."--Library Journal
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Do you know what a snollygoster is? Do you know anyone who engages in onolatry? Would you eat something called a muktuk?
Long Description
Do you know what a snollygoster is? Do you know anyone who engages in onolatry? Would you eat something called a muktuk? Impress your friends and pepper your dinner party conversations with such nuggets as gobemouche, mumpsimus, and cachinnate. Tie your tongue in knots trying to say such sesquipedalian words as floccinaucinihilipilification or pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. You can learn about all of these bizarre and beautiful words and manymore in Weird and Wonderful Words.Weird and Wonderful Words is a potpourri--a gallimaufry--a salmagundi--a collection of colorful and strange words. Compiled by noted lexicographer Erin McKean, the book contains hundreds of definitions written in a clear and conversational styleaccompanied by full-page cartoon illustrations by Roz Chast. 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 dictionaries and a guide to creating your own unusual words correctly from Greek and Latin roots.Smart and funny and with just a touch of whimsy, Weird and Wonderful Words is the perfect book for reading in your sitooterie with a bumbo in yourhand while mavises sing in your earor something like that.A sampling of Weird and Wonderful Words:*Autochthon: a human being born from the soil where he or she lives (like the Biblical Adam). Also used as a synonym for aborigine, it comes from a Greek word meaning sprung fromthat land itself.*Camorra: a secret society, usually one breaking the law. This word comes from the name of group that was active in Naples in the nineteenth century.*Snollygoster: a dishonest politician, especially a shrewd or calculating one. A connection has been proposed between this word and snallygaster, a mythical monster of Maryland, invented to frighten freed slaves. However, the first evidence for snallygaster follows snollygoster by about a hundred years, makinga connection (in this direction, at least) unlikely.*Tigon: the hybrid offspring of a male tiger and a lioness. A liger is the offspring produced by a male lion and a tigress.
Review Text
"Interesting."--School Library Journal "It will undoubtably answer the occasional reference question as well as entertain."--ExLibris "A treasury of colorful and unusual words."--Forecast "A whimsical lexicographical petting zoo."--Copyeditor "Delightful."--Hartford Courant "This book is as wonderful as the weird words in it....Funambulists, seplasiaries, and word lovers everywhere surely will want thisbook."--Library Journal
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'this is a book that will enhance both your logodaedaly and youreutrapely. For all its nidgery appearance, it merits not a suirk but a place onthe pluteus of your sitooterie'Daily Express
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Selling point: A collection of colorful and strange words.Selling point: Compiled by noted lexicographer Erin McKean.Selling point: Contains hundreds of definitions written in a clear and conversational style accompanied by full-page cartoon illustrations by Roz Chast.Selling point: Features a bibliography of Oxford dictionaries.Selling point: A guide to creating your own unusual words correctly from Greek and Latin roots.
Details ISBN0195159055 Short Title WEIRD & WONDERFUL WORDS Language English Illustrator Roz Chast ISBN-10 0195159055 ISBN-13 9780195159059 Media Book Format Hardcover Year 2002 Pages 144 Imprint Oxford University Press Inc Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DOI 10.1604/9780195159059 Edited by McKean, Erin UK Release Date 2002-11-28 AU Release Date 2002-11-28 NZ Release Date 2002-11-28 US Release Date 2002-11-28 Birth 1964 Affiliation Chemical Engineer, both at Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Position Chemical Engineer Qualifications PhD. Author Erin McKean Publisher Oxford University Press Inc Publication Date 2002-11-28 Alternative 9780195312126 DEWEY 428.1 Illustrations numerous cartoons Audience General We've got this
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