Superdupers!
Subtitle: really funny real words
By: Marvin Terban ; illustrated by Giulio Maestro.
Contributors: Maestro, Giulio, ill.
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 1989
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
Subjects: Vocabulary -- Juvenile literature; Play on words -- Juvenile literature; English language -- Etymology -- Juvenile literature; Vocabulary; Play on words; English language -- Etymology
Description: Explains the meaning and origins of over 100 nonsense words that make the English language more colorful including such examples as "flip-flop," "fuzzy-wuzzy," "cancan," and "tutti frutti."
Notes: Bibliography: p. 63.
Includes index.