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What do wierd and wonderful words such as oology and photic (used by the likes of Nabokov and Beckett, Anthony Burgess and John Fowles) actually mean? In the past you had to look in the bulkiest, most expensive dictionaries to find out. Now, in this informative and hugely entertaining book, more than 1,300 fascinating words--erotic, poetic and abusive, from abaxial to zoophiliac--are clearly defined (with examples from major writers). If you're in pursuit of fulgent logodaedaly (dazzling skill with words), you can enrich your incondite (unpolished) prose. Better still, you'll be able to impress your friends with your brilliant vocabulary without making a complete balatron of yourself!Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of South Carolina Press
ISBN-139780872496835
eBay Product ID (ePID)86832661
Product Key Features
Publication Year1989
SubjectEducation
Number of Pages277 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameThe Logodaedalian's Dictionary of Interesting and Unusual Words
TypeDictionary
AuthorGeorge Stone Saussy Iii
FormatPaperback
Dimensions
Item Height229 mm
Item Width152 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States
Title_AuthorGeorge Stone Saussy Iii