The little book of lost words : collywobbles, snollygosters, and 86 other surprisingly useful terms worth resurrecting
Record details
- ISBN: 9780399582677
- ISBN: 0399582673
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Physical Description:
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185 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: California ; Ten Speed Press, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
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Subject: | English language Glossaries, vocabularies, etc Vocabulary LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES Linguistics General SOCIAL SCIENCE Popular Culture HISTORY Social History English language Vocabulary |
Genre: | controlled vocabularies. Controlled vocabularies. Glossaries, vocabularies, etc. Controlled vocabularies. Vocabulaires contrôlés. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Homer Public Library | 428.1 GIL (Text) | 000164557 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
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!"--