Semantricks
A Dictionary of Words You Thought You Knew| By: | Lewis M. Gediman; Nino DeNicola; Paul Gediman; Michael P. Lauder |
| Publisher: | Open Road Integrated Media, Inc. |
| Print ISBN: | 9780312377823 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781429981729 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2008 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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At last, a book for the American Idle. Here is a punny new dictionary of inventive definitions of real words. Acrimony: Spousal support payments following bitter divorce Friction: Novel that rubs you the wrong way Negligence: Woman's forgotten dressing gown Zinfandel: Heathen wine Ranging from the merely fetched ( Spaniel: Iberian canine) to the far-fetched ( Buccaneer: Piracy in corn pricing) to the neurologically suspect ( Giraffe: Very tall spotted decanter), Semantricks will surprise, delight, and even stump the most word-wary pundits. Suffix it to say, you'll never look at diphthong the same way again.