The Dictionary of Difficult Words: With more than 400 perplexing words to test your wits!

by Jane Solomon

Louise Lockhart (Illustrator)

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What is a bumbershoot? Or a moonbow? And what does it mean when someone absquatulates...? Find out all this and more in The Dictionary of Difficult Words.

Test your knowledge with more than 400 words to amaze, confuse and inspire budding wordsmiths (and adults). All of the words featured in this book are difficult to spell, hard to say and their meanings are obscure to most children (and most adults)! You can master them with the simple, easy-to-understand definitions and pronunciations written by lexicographer (yes, that's in there too!) Jane Solomon. Fun, colourful illustrations add whimsy to the pages.

Some jobbernowls say dictionaries are anachronistic, or even obsolete, but it's kenspeckle to real bibliophiles that those vociferous ninnyhammers are just metagrobolised by the plethora of portmanteaus, neologisms and jargon they offer. Next time you find yourself wrangling with one of these ultracrepidarians, no need to imagineer a sockdolager: just show them this book.

This captivating dictionary celebrates the beauty of the English language for family trivia time spent around the printed page.
  • ISBN13 9781786038104
  • Publish Date 2 May 2019
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
  • Imprint Frances Lincoln Children's Books
  • Edition New Edition
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 112
  • Language English