Depraved and Insulting English

Depraved and Insulting EnglishOriginally published as two distinct collections, Depraved and Insulting English brings to light the language's most offensive and obscene words words that have fallen out of today's lexicon 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) or a boss's pleonexia (insane greed)? And what better way is there to

Originally published as two distinct collections, Depraved and Insulting English brings to light the language's most offensive and obscene words--words that have fallen out of today's lexicon 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) or a boss's pleonexia (insane greed)? And what better way is there to insult the scombroid landlord (resembling a mackerel) or that tumbrel of a brother-in-law (a person who is drunk to the point of vomiting) than by calling him by his rightful name?

A compact compendium of ingenious words for anyone who's been tongue-tied, flabbergasted, or dumbfounded, Depraved and Insulting English supplies the appropriate vocabulary for any occasion. Word lovers, chronic insulters, berayers, bescumbers, and bespewers need fear no more--finding the correct word to wow your friends or silence your enemies just got a whole lot easier.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: 08/14/2002
ISBN: 9780156011495
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.64lbs
Size: 7.56h x 5.14w x 0.79d

Review Citations: PW Notes and Reprints 06/17/2002 pg. 56
Library Journal 08/01/2002 pg. 5
Publishers Weekly 06/17/2002
Library Journal 08/12/2002