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The Horologicon
A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language
Forsyth, Mark
Editor: Berkley Publishing Group
Number of pages: 304
Dimensions: 128/197/22
Language: Anglais
Epuisé
ISBN: 0425264378
EAN: 9780425264379
OLF code: 5550829
Format: Poche format B
Publication date: 01/10/2013
Category: Références et Langues
Price: 23.00 €
Vat: 5.5%
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From Mark Forsyth, the author of the #1 international bestseller,
The Etymologicon
, comes a book of weird words for familiar situations.
The Horologicon
(or book of hours) contains the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to what hour of the day you might need them.
Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you’re
philogrobolized
.
Find yourself pretending to work? That’s
fudgelling
.
And this could lead to
rizzling
, if you feel sleepy after lunch. Though you are sure to become a sparkling
deipnosopbist
by dinner. Just don’t get too
vinomadefied
; a drunk dinner companion is never appreciated.
From
ante-jentacular
to
snudge
by way of
quafftide
and
wamblecropt
, at last you can say, with utter accuracy, exactly what you mean.