Depraved English: The Most Disgusting and Hilarious Word Book Ever
By Peter Novobatzky and Ammon Shea
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From aboiement to zooerastia, a guided tour of the lantrified underbelly of the English language
This unusual, un-put-downable little volume by Peter Novobatzky and Ammon Shea collects more than three hundred of the English language's most disgusting, offensive, and obscene words--words that have fallen out of common usage 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), a boss's pleonexia (insane greed), or a buddy's fumosities (ill-smelling vapors from a drunken person's belches)?
Word lovers, chronic insulters, berayers, bescumbers, and bespewers need feel like tongue-tied witlings no more: Finding the correct, keck-inspiring word just got a whole lot easier with Depraved English.
Peter Novobatzky
Peter Novobatzky is a New York-based word hound. He is the coauthor, with Ammon Shea, of Depraved English and Insulting English.
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