[Mobile book] Samuel Johnson's Insults: A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master
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| #1504667 in Books | Walker n Company | 2004-04-01 | 2004-04-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 182.88 x15.24 x5.26l, | File Name: 0802714285 | 112 pages |
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Not very useful but interesting|By Tom Diaz|Interesting enough,I'll grant, as historical material. Much of this material has passed into the language long ago and now it's just dull cant. Another large portion is so obscure that anyone who tried to insult with its language would at best be embarrassed. Enjoy reading it, but don't expect to become a master of put down thereby.||“This masterly compendium of malicious wit reveals Dr. Johnson as a world-class curmudgeon, and that, Sir, is high praise indeed” ―Jon Winokur, author of The Portable Curmudgeon and The Traveling Curmudgeon|Ab
Lackbrain, oysterwench, wantwit, clotpoll--Samuel Johnson's famous dictionary of 1755 contained some of the ripest insults in the English language. In Samuel Johnson's Insults, Jack Lynch has compiled more than 300 of the curmudgeonly lexicographer's mightiest barbs, along with definitions only the master himself could elucidate.
Word lovers will delight in flexing their linguistic muscles with devilishly descriptive vituperations that pack a wicked punch. Many...
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