num_pages: 145
description: We all swear, we blue the air - and what do we usually care about the source and descent of the words, foul and fiery, that tumble over our tongues. Curses, imprecations, maledictions, execrations, anathemas - we hurl or pronounce or cast, from spite or malice, or merely because our tempers flare. And then nothing will serve but the most outrageous language.Here is practically every dirty word and foul phrase you've ever heard, or uttered, in English, along with, surely, a great many your lips have never framed. From Chaucer to Shakespeare through Lenny Bruce and B.S. Pulley to the street corner oaths coined only yesterday, Talking Dirty serves up steaming cauldrons of vulgarities. Included are current and historic uses of the bleeped and the blanked, the words and phrases once asterisked, excised, and censured. And if you wish to curse in French, German, or Italian, or, especially, Yiddish or Spanish, Talking Dirty offers prime examples.
language: English
title: Talking Dirty: Slang, Expletives, and Curses from Around the World
titlecomplete: Talking Dirty: Slang, Expletives, and Curses from Around the World
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Citadel Pr