The little book of lost words : collywobbles, snollygosters, and 86 other surprisingly useful terms worth resurrecting

ISBN: 9780399582677
ISBN: 0399582673
Physical Description: print 185 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: California ; Ten Speed Press, [2019]
Copyright: &copy;2019

Gillard, Joe 1983- (author.).

Summary: "The founder of History Hustle presents a handy guide for expressing yourself with history's best words. This collection features scores of unique words from history that deal with surprisingly modern issues like sleeping in and procrastination--proving that some things never change! The Little Book of Lost Words presents each term that's ready to be brought back into modern-day use, complete with definition, hilarious sample sentence, and cheeky historical art. You'll learn new words for the cozy room where you like to Netflix and chill (snuggery), for a dishonest politician (snollygoster), and for a young person who sleeps through the day and doesn't work (dewdropper). If you like Lost in Translation, Shakespeare Insult Generator, Drunk History, and Roald Dahl--and you delight in the way words like blatteroon and flapdoodle roll off the tongue--then you're the word lover this book was written for. Want to know what a fizgig or groke is? Read this book!"--