description: Culled from 20 years of Maledicta--"the journal the world swears by"--this compendium of colorful language in all its forms takes a linguistic look at "dirty words." Offering a clever mixture of both scholarly and popular, witty and serious words, this good-natured look at offensive language includes dirty jokes, regional swear words, and myriad terms of abuse.
language: English
title: Opus Maledictorum: Insults, Curses, Slurs, and other Bad Words from Around the World
titlecomplete: Opus Maledictorum: Insults, Curses, Slurs, and other Bad Words from Around the World
ratings_count: 13
publisher: Da Capo Press