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The Little Book of Lost Words-Linguistics-買書書 BuyBookBook

The Little Book of Lost Words

Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting

Joe Gillard (Author) ... more
Edition: US - Hardback
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English • Age Adult - Adult
192 pages • 5.3 x 7.28 x 0.83 in
Approx. weight: 0.83 lb
Publication date: 03 Sep,2019
Barcode: 9780399582677 • Ten Speed Press
More books in English for Age Adult - Adult
Language and Linguistics
  • Linguistics
  • Popular culture
  • Social and cultural history

Description

By: Joe Gillard    
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!

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