Description: The Illustrated Compendium of Weirdly Specific WordsIncluding Bumbledom, Jumentous, Spaghettification, and More Author(s): Tyler Vendetti, Rebecca Pry Format: Hardback Publisher: HarperCollins Focus, United States Imprint: Whalen Book Works ISBN-13: 9781732512665, 978-1732512665 Synopsis The Illustrated Compendium of Weirdly Specific Words is an illustrated dictionary of the 300+ most specific words in the English language, along with their definitions, roots, and (hilarious) usage quotes! Have you ever been lying in your bed, surrounded by crumbs and wrappers, feasting on your fifth pop tart and thought, I wish there was a word for this? Well, there is! Accubationis - the practice of eating and drinking while lying down. The English language is populated by many words that have a regular place in everyday conversation, and The Illustrated Compendium of Weirdly Specific Words celebrates these words by featuring definitions, origins and usage, and coupling illustrations. Words include: Badling (noun) - a group of ducks. Crapulence (noun) - sickness resulting from eating too much. Guddle (verb) - fishing only with your hands. Kaiju (noun) - A film genre characterized by giant, terrifying monsters. Slugabed (noun) - A lazy person who stays in bed late. Wegotism (noun) - The excessive use of the word ?we'. With more than 300 insanely specific words, you'd think that you would know a few of them, right? Well, think again! We're willing to wager that you don't know a single one of these words! Unless, of course, you have a special interest in the smell of horse urine (the word for that particular odor is jumentuous). The Illustrated Compendium of Weirdly Specific Words not only captures these words through equally specific illustrations, it also tells you what they mean! And like so many great reference books before it, it is organized in alphabetical order, from aglet to zopissa. Readers will close this book a little bit smarter than they were when they picked it up!
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Book Title: The Illustrated Compendium of Weirdly Specific Words
Subject Area: Language Study
Item Height: 203 mm
Item Width: 152 mm
Series: Illustrated Compendium Series
Author: Tyler Vendetti
Publication Name: Illustrated Compendium of Weirdly Specific Words: Including Bumbledom, Jumentous, Spaghettification, and More
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Whalen Book Works
Publication Year: 2020
Type: Reference
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
