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Dickson's word treasury : a connoisseur's collection of old and new, weird and wonderful, useful and outlandish words / Paul Dickson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Wiley, [1992]Copyright date: ©1992Description: vi, 378 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0471551686
  • 9780471551683
Uniform titles:
  • Word treasury
Contained works:
  • Dickson, Paul. Words
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 428.1 20
LOC classification:
  • PE1449 .D52 1992
Contents:
Acronyms -- Alimentary Words -- Animal Talk I -- Bluff Words -- Body English -- British Words -- Curses -- Decorative Words -- Dress Words -- Fillers -- Game Names -- Human Conditions -- Magic Words -- Medical Terms -- Monsters -- Neologisms -- Oddities -- Performing Words -- Pidgin -- Prophetic Words -- Punks -- Sexy Words -- Slogans -- Studious Words -- Temporal Terms -- Travel Words -- Words at Work -- Written Words -- The Last Word.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 428.1 DIC (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A071235B

Rev. and expanded ed. of: Words. 1982.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-355) and index.

Acronyms -- Alimentary Words -- Animal Talk I -- Bluff Words -- Body English -- British Words -- Curses -- Decorative Words -- Dress Words -- Fillers -- Game Names -- Human Conditions -- Magic Words -- Medical Terms -- Monsters -- Neologisms -- Oddities -- Performing Words -- Pidgin -- Prophetic Words -- Punks -- Sexy Words -- Slogans -- Studious Words -- Temporal Terms -- Travel Words -- Words at Work -- Written Words -- The Last Word.

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