The Illustrated Compendium of Weirdly Specific Words is an illustrated dictionary of the 300+ most specific words in the English language, along with their definitions, roots, and (hilarious) usage quotes! Have you ever been lying in your bed, surrounded by crumbs and wrappers, feasting on your fifth pop tart and thought, “I wish there was a word for this”? Well, there is! Accubationis the practice of eating and drinking while lying down. Now, have you ever been standing at the kitchen counter, surrounded by swamp muck, feasting on your fifth frog and thought, ‘I wish there was a word for this'? Yeah-we have one for that too. Batrachophagousis a word that describes the act of eating frogs. Yum! The English language is populated by many words that have a regular place in everyday conversation, but for every handful of habitually used expressions there are a few that you can't possibly fathom uttering simply because they are so darn specific! The Illustrated Compendium of Weirdly Specific Words will dive head first into the definitions, origins and usage of these words all while illustrating their incredibly weird functions! With more than 300 insanely specific words, you'd think that you would know a few of them, right? Well, think again! We're willing to wager that you don't know a single one of these words! Unless, of course, you have a special interest in the smell of horse urine (the word for that particular odor is jumentuous). The Illustrated Compendiumof Weirdly Specific Words not only captures these words through equally specific illustrations, it also tells you what they mean! Readers will close this book a little bit smarter than they were when they picked it up! Like so many great reference books before it, The Illustrated Compendium of Incredibly Specific Words is organized in alphabetical order, from aglet to zopissa!
