Description
Product ID: | 9780399582677 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | CN |
Title: | The Little Book of Lost Words |
Subtitle: | Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 87 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting |
Authors: | Author: Joe Gillard |
Page Count: | 192 |
Subjects: | Humour, Humour |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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! |
Imprint Name: | Ten Speed Press |
Publisher Name: | Ten Speed Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2019-09-03 |