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The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting
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The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting
Current price: $15.99
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The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting
Current price: $15.99
Size: Hardcover
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The founder of
History Hustle
presents a handy guide for expressing yourself with history's best words.
This collection features scores of unique words from history that deal with surprisingly modern issues like sleeping in and procrastinationproving that some things never change!
The Little Book of Lost Words
presents each term that's ready to be brought back into modern-day use, complete with definition, hilarious sample sentence, and cheeky historical art. You'll learn new words for the cozy room where you like to Netflix and chill (
snuggery
), for a dishonest politician (
snollygoster
), and for a young person who sleeps through the day and doesn't work (
dewdropper
). If you like
Lost in Translation
,
Shakespeare Insult Generator
Drunk History
, and Roald Dahland you delight in the way words like
blatteroon
and
flapdoodle
roll off the tonguethen you're the word lover this book was written for. Want to know what a fizgig or groke is? Read this book!