Dickson, Paul <br/><br/>
Dickson's word treasury :  a connoisseur's collection of old and new, weird and wonderful, useful and outlandish words / 
Paul Dickson. 
 - vi, 378 pages :  illustrations ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/> Rev. and expanded ed. of: Words. 1982. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-355) and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0471551686 9780471551683 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>91025819 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Vocabulary.<br/>English language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PE1449  / .D52 1992 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>428.1