The disheveled dictionary
Subtitle: a curious caper through our sumptuous lexicon
By: Karen Elizabeth Gordon.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co.
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: English language -- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc; Vocabulary
Description: The Disheveled Dictionary takes a voluptuary's approach to language, carousing in a wanton world of words and their multiple and mischievous uses. Favorite characters from earlier books appear in cameo, including Yolanta, Jonquil Mapp, cowboys with lingerie, and assorted royal riffraff, who join in adumbration with the Grim Reaper, a reluctant baba, the contralto Constanza Zermattress, and other inspired creations.