Semantricks: A Dictionary of Words You Thought You Knew

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.

© 2008 St. Martin's Griffin (E-bog): 9781429981729

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E-bog: 24. juni 2008