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The Illustrated Compendium of Weirdly Specific Words: Including Bumbledom, Jumentous, Spaghettification, and More
The Illustrated Compendium of Weirdly Specific Words: Including Bumbledom, Jumentous, Spaghettification, and More
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Have you ever been lying in your bed, surrounded by crumbs and wrappers, feasting on your fifth pop tart and thought, I wish there was a word for this? Well, there is!
The English language is populated by many words that have a regular place in everyday conversation, and The Illustrated Compendium of Weirdly Specific Words celebrates these words by featuring
, and
. Words include:
With more than 300 insanely specific words, you'd think that you would know a few of them, right? Well, think again! We're willing to wager that
! Unless, of course, you have a special interest in the smell of horse urine (the word for that particular odor is
).
not only captures these words through equally specific illustrations, it also tells you what they mean! And like so many great reference books before it, it is organized in alphabetical order, from
to
.
Readers will close this book a little bit smarter than they were when they picked it up!