Supplies humorous definitions for imaginary words, such as torsoso, socratease, abdicake, riff-raft, randumb, and hobododo
As the twentieth century overtook the nineteenth, old habits gave way to new. The familiar image of grandpa sitting by the glowing oil lamp furtively looking up “pudendum” and “areola” has become an antiquation, the stuff of Saturday Evening Post covers. New sources of knowledge have robbed the dictionary of its central role in the family experience. What once stood proudly in the living room now jacks up the family Ford. Yet a rebirth may well be near. Everyday, modern citizens are bombarded with hundreds of new and unfamiliar words, exposed to them in difficult and unfamiliar places and circumstances. We have come to a bizarre situation in this society when parents complain that their children learn more vocabulary in public toilets than they do at home or at school. Fortunately, help is in your hands. Those important new words your friends have been talking about are all here. There is no need to twist a dime into a lock or sit in some grubby train station stall to learn what is on everyone’s lips. The words gathered in these pages can be found nowhere else. So welcome to life’s greatest adventure, the lasting joy of “wurds.”
As the twentieth century overtook the nineteenth, old habits gave way to new. The familiar image of grandpa sitting by the glowing oil lamp furtively looking up “pudendum” and “areola” has become an antiquation, the stuff of Saturday Evening Post covers. New sources of knowledge have robbed the dictionary of its central role in the family experience. What once stood proudly in the living room now jacks up the family Ford. Yet a rebirth may well be near. Everyday, modern citizens are bombarded with hundreds of new and unfamiliar words, exposed to them in difficult and unfamiliar places and circumstances. We have come to a bizarre situation in this society when parents complain that their children learn more vocabulary in public toilets than they do at home or at school. Fortunately, help is in your hands. Those important new words your friends have been talking about are all here. There is no need to twist a dime into a lock or sit in some grubby train station stall to learn what is on everyone’s lips. The words gathered in these pages can be found nowhere else. So welcome to life’s greatest adventure, the lasting joy of “wurds.”
