Weird and Wonderful Words
by Erin McKean (Editor)
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Lists the meaning of hundreds of bizarre and unusual words and includes a guide to coining new words.Tags
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Erin McKean is the founder of Wordnik.com. Previously, she was the editor in chief for American Dictionaries at Oxford University Press, and the editor of the New Oxford American Dictionary, 2E. Her non-fiction books include Weird and Wonderful Words, More Weird and Wonderful Words, Totally Weird and Wonderful Words, That's Amore, and The Hundred show more Dresses. Her first novel, The Secret Lives of Dresses, was published in 2011. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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