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Totally Weird and Wonderful Words

Totally Weird and Wonderful Words
Author: Erin McKean
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2006-10-23
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0199886032

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Do you know what a snollygoster is? Would you eat something called a muktuk? Do you know anyone who engages in onolatry? Impress your friends and pepper your dinner party conversations with such nuggets as gobemouche, mumpsimus, and cachinnate. You can learn about all of these bizarre and beautiful words and many more in Totally Weird and Wonderful Words. Offering a potpourri of colorful and fascinating words compiled by noted lexicographer Erin McKean, it contains hundreds of definitions, and has been updated to include two new essays, with over 150 words new to this edition. Written in a clear and conversational style, the book contains full-page cartoon illustrations by Roz Chast and Danny Shanahan. Featuring hundreds of words guaranteed to amuse and astonish, this is a book that will appeal to logophiles everywhere. It also features a bibliography of Oxford's dictionaries and a guide to creating your own unusual words correctly from Greek and Latin roots.


More Weird and Wonderful Words

More Weird and Wonderful Words
Author: Erin McKean
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2003
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780195170573

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This title digs deep into forgotten corners of the dictionary, gathering both the most spectacular old and the most impressive new words. The result is more than 400 prime specimens with pronunciations, defined in a conversational style.


The Indispensable Dictionary of Unusual Words

The Indispensable Dictionary of Unusual Words
Author: Josefa Heifetz Byrne
Publisher: Skyhorse
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2012-07-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781616086503

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From aasvogel (the South African vulture) to knurry (full of knots), from melangeur (a machine for making chocolate syrup) to zumbooruk (a small cannon fired from the back of a camel), the words in this book are guaranteed to expand your vocabulary and confound your friends. They may be obscure and even preposterous, but every entry in this eye-opening book has been accepted as a formal or legitimate English word by at least one major dictionary. This dictionary does not claim or attempt to be complete. It is based completely on the editor’s sense of wonder and absurdity. It is educational, yes, but also more fun than any dictionary has a right to be!


Weird and Wonderful Words

Weird and Wonderful Words
Author: Erin McKean
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2002
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0195159055

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Lists the meaning of hundreds of bizarre and unusual words and includes a guide to coining new words.


Quirky, Jerky, Extra Perky

Quirky, Jerky, Extra Perky
Author: Brian P. Cleary
Publisher: Lerner Digital ™
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2017-08-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1512479748

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Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Have fun learning language! One book is never enough to explore the wide range of amazing adjectives! The crazy cats deliver loads of additional examples to illustrate the potent power of adjectives to describe the wonderful world around us—and our incredible imaginations. Brian P. Cleary’s playful verse and Brian Gable’s comical cats turn traditional grammar lessons on end. Each adjective is printed in color for easy identification. Read this book aloud and share the delight of the sense—and nonsense—of words.


L Is for Lollygag

L Is for Lollygag
Author: Chronicle Books
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2010-07-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 0811870774

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Go beyond the typical ABCs with a foray into unusual vocabulary in this illustrated dictionary for wordsmiths of all ages. A is for apple? B is for ball? Humbug! Forget about that hackneyed gobbledygook. In this lexicon of linguistic delights, word lovers of all ages will discover that A is for alley-oop, B is for brouhaha, and L is for, well, lollygag! Packed with quirky illustrations, fun trivia, and lists within lists, this is one humdinger of a dictionary.


Absurd Words

Absurd Words
Author: Tara Lazar
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2022-01-02
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1728241197

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Why use boring old words when you can expand and build your vocabulary—and have fun doing it! A user-friendly, engaging book about the power of words—perfect for educators, parents, and future word nerds. Build confidence and become a stronger reader, writer, and communicator! This fun and hilarious vocabulary builder: Includes over 750 high-level, wondrous, and wacky words! With sample sentences and word history that help new words make sense! Bright and fun illustrations make learning new words fun! Allows to search by category so new word choices are easy to find! Kids with strong vocabularies are better readers, better writers, and even feel more confident tackling math and science. When a kid wants to learn a new word, we often send them to the dictionary or a thesaurus. But dictionaries only work if you know exactly the word you want. This dictionary-thesaurus hybrid is organized by theme and puts words in context with fun, engaging and hilarious sentences, pictures, and fun facts. You'll learn what words mean and then actually use them!


The Weird World of Words

The Weird World of Words
Author: Mitchell Symons
Publisher: Zest Books ™
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2019-08-01
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1541582128

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Did you know that ‘Almost’ is the longest word in the English language with all of its letters in alphabetical order ? Or that ‘Stewardesses’ is the longest word you can type solely with your left hand? Or that fireflies aren’t actually flies, they’re beetles? From information about words and their uses, to useful lists of things you never knew had names, palindromes, famous lines from literature and film, bizarre test answers and more, The Weird World of Words is bursting with truly oddball facts about words and language—and will have you hooked from the very first page.


Other-Wordly

Other-Wordly
Author: Yee-Lum Mak
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2016-10-11
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1452163111

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Discover words to surprise, delight, and enamor. Learn terms for the sunlight that filters through the leaves of trees, for dancing awkwardly but with relish, and for the look shared by two people who each wish the other would speak first. Other-Wordly is an irresistible ebook for lovers of words and those lost for words alike.


Quirkyalone

Quirkyalone
Author: Sasha Cagen
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2006-01-03
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0060750618

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quirkyalone (kwur.kee.uh.lohn) n. adj. A person who enjoys being single (but is not opposed to being in a relationship) and generally prefers to be alone rather than date for the sake of being in a couple. With unique traits and an optimistic spirit; a sensibility that transcends relationship status. Also adj. Of, relating to, or embodying quirkyalones. See also: romantic, idealist, independent. Are you a quirkyalone? Do you know someone who is? Do you believe life can be prosperous and great with or without a mate? Do you value your friendships as much as your romantic relationships? Do gut instincts guide your most important decisions? Are you often among the first on the dance floor? Coupled or single, man or woman, social butterfly or shrinking violet, quirkyalones have walked among us, invisible until now. Through the coining of a new word, this tribe has been given a voice. Meet the quirkyalones. Read about: The quirkyalone nation: where we live, what we do Quirkytogethers (quirkyalones who have entered long–term relationships) Sex and the single quirkyalone Romantic obsession: the dark side of the quirkyalone's romantic personality Quirkyalones throughout history (profiles in courage)