Description
From "aboiement" to "zooerastia," a guided tour of the lantrified underbelly of the English langauage This unusual, un-put-downable little volume collects more than three hundred of the English language's most disgusting, offensive, and obscene words--words that have fallen out of common usage but will no doubt delight, amuse, and in some cases prove surprisingly useful. Who hasn't searched for the right word to describe a colleague's "maschalephidrosis" (runaway armpit perspiration), a boss's "pleonexia" (insane greed), or a buddy's "fumosities" (ill-smelling vapors from a drunken person's belches)? Word lovers, chronic insulters, "berayers," "bescumbers," and "bespewers" need feel like tongue-tied "witlings" no more: Finding the correct, "keck"-inspiring word just got a whole lot easier.
