Weird Words

Author : Josefa Heifetz Byrne
Publisher : Skyhorse
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-07-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1616086505

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The Indispensable Dictionary of Unusual Words by Josefa Heifetz Byrne Pdf

From 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 : Erin McKean
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199886032

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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words by Erin McKean Pdf

Do 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. Both witty and entertaining, this new paperback brings together two best-selling compendiums to all words unique and strange, Weird and Wonderful Words and More 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 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, Totally Weird and Wonderful Words is the perfect book for reading in your sitooterie with a bumbo in your hand while mavises sing in your ear.

Author : Susie Dent
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781407138695

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Susie Dent's Weird Words by Susie Dent Pdf

A funny and entertaining way to discover more about the history and meaning of language. SUSIE DENT'S WEIRD WORDS takes children on a rip-roaring tour through some of the most astonishing and sometimes quite revolting origins of English words. As Susie Dent knows, even the most ordinary-sounding word can have the most extraordinary story behind it.

Author : Joan Crawford
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781479748877

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Odd Odes, Weird Words and Loopy Letters by Joan Crawford Pdf

A miscellany of verse, mostly tumorous, and odds and ends of prose, wind-up letters etc.

Author : Erin McKean
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780195159059

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Weird and Wonderful Words by Erin McKean Pdf

Lists the meaning of hundreds of bizarre and unusual words and includes a guide to coining new words.

Author : Mitchell Symons
Publisher : Zest Books ™
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781541582125

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The Weird World of Words by Mitchell Symons Pdf

Did you know that ‘Almost’ is the longest word in the English language with all of its letters in alphabetical order ? Or that ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word you can type solely with your left hand? Or that fireflies aren’t actually flies, they’re beetles? From information about words and their uses, to useful lists of things you never knew had names, palindromes, famous lines from literature and film, bizarre test answers and more, The Weird World of Words is bursting with truly oddball facts about words and language—and will have you hooked from the very first page.

Author : Andy Seed
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781408866849

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The Silly Book of Weird and Wacky Words by Andy Seed Pdf

Do you know what 'park your jam on the frog' means? Fancy some ognib? What rhymes with 'circus'? ...plus many more amazing things you never knew about words. Have hours of fun wixing up your murds with this hilarious book, packed full of rhymes, puns, games, jokes, gibberish and more.

Author : Josefa Heifetz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-31
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1567315542

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Word Lover's Dictionary by Josefa Heifetz Pdf

Author : Erin McKean,Danny Shanahan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0195170571

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More Weird and Wonderful Words by Erin McKean,Danny Shanahan Pdf

This title digs deep into forgotten corners of the dictionary, gathering both the most spectacular old and the most impressive new words. The result is more than 400 prime specimens with pronunciations, defined in a conversational style.

Author : Dan Clore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0982429649

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Weird Words by Dan Clore Pdf

Eldritch . . . cacodaemoniacal . . . lucubration . . . Have you ever wondered about the meaning of these and other esoteric words used by Lovecraft and his colleagues? In this immense dictionary, the product of years of scholarship and research, Dan Clore not only defines thousands of words found in the work of H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, and others, but supplies their derivation and, most impressively, provides parallel usages of the words from centuries of English usage, citing authors ranging from Cotton Mather to Henry Kuttner, from Edmund Spenser to Samuel R. Delany. This is a volume that scholars of English usage, enthusiasts of fantasy and horror literature, and readers who love the beauty of the English language will find richly rewarding . . . either to read from beginning to end or to dip into as the mood strikes them. Dan Clore is a free-lance writer and scholar who has published articles in Lovecraft Studies, Studies in Weird Fiction and numerous other journals and critical anthologies. His fiction is collected in The Unspeakable and Others, first published in 2001.

Author : Jane Solomon
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781786038104

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The Dictionary of Difficult Words by Jane Solomon Pdf

​What 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 : Yee-Lum Mak
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781452163116

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Other-Wordly by Yee-Lum Mak Pdf

Discover 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 : Jan Leighton,Hallie Leighton
Publisher : Levenger Company
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1929154127

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Rare Words and Ways to Master Their Meanings by Jan Leighton,Hallie Leighton Pdf

Author : George Stone Saussy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015015457446

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The Logodaedalian's Dictionary of Interesting and Unusual Words by George Stone Saussy Pdf

Reprint 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 : Paul McFedries
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781101217184

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weird Word Origins by Paul McFedries Pdf

Get ready to chew the fat. This engaging, humorous new book explains the not-so-common origins of such commonly used phrases as “apple-pie order,” “chew the fat,” and “hat trick.” Presented in a fun, easy-to-read style, it provides entertaining insight on metaphorical phrases, weird words, and strange expressions and takes readers on a journey through the bizarre and eccentric origins that make up our everyday speech. • Word books have gained in popularity not just with students and linguaphiles, but with a general population interested in the fascinating development of our language. • Contains back stories for 500 intriguing words and phrases. • Fun to flip through and also fun to read cover to cover.