num_pages: 164
description: From aboiement to zooerastia , a guided tour of the lantrified underbelly of the English languageThis 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 Finding the correct, keck -inspiring word just got a whole lot easier.
language: English
title: Depraved English
titlecomplete: Depraved English
genres: Nonfiction, Language
ratings_count: 36
publisher: St. Martin's Press