Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language

Author(s): Mark Forsyth

Words and Ideas

The Horologicon (or book of hours) gives you the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to the hour of the day when you really need them.
Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you're philogrobolized. Pretending to work? That's fudgelling, which may lead to rizzling if you feel sleepy after lunch, though by dinner time you will have become a sparkling deipnosophist.
From Mark Forsyth, author of the bestselling The Etymologicon, this is a book of weird words for familiar situations. From ante-jentacular to snudge by way of quafftide and wamblecropt, at last you can say, with utter accuracy, exactly what you mean.


Product Information

General Fields

  • : 9781848314153
  • : Icon Books
  • : Icon Books
  • : June 2012
  • : November 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Mark Forsyth
  • : 256