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    Depraved English: The Most Disgusting and Hilarious Word Book Ever
    Depraved English: The Most Disgusting and Hilarious Word Book Ever
    Depraved English: The Most Disgusting and Hilarious Word Book Ever
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    Depraved English: The Most Disgusting and Hilarious Word Book Ever

    By Peter Novobatzky and Ammon Shea

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    From aboiement to zooerastia, a guided tour of the lantrified underbelly of the English language

    This unusual, un-put-downable little volume by Peter Novobatzky and Ammon Shea collects more than three hundred of the English language's most disgusting, offensive, and obscene words--words that have fallen out of common usage but will no doubt delight, amuse, and in some cases prove surprisingly useful. Who hasn't searched for the right word to describe a colleague's maschalephidrosis (runaway armpit perspiration), a boss's pleonexia (insane greed), or a buddy's fumosities (ill-smelling vapors from a drunken person's belches)?

    Word lovers, chronic insulters, berayers, bescumbers, and bespewers need feel like tongue-tied witlings no more: Finding the correct, keck-inspiring word just got a whole lot easier with Depraved English.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateJul 8, 2014
    ISBN9781466875449
    Depraved English: The Most Disgusting and Hilarious Word Book Ever
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    Peter Novobatzky

    Peter Novobatzky is a New York-based word hound. He is the coauthor, with Ammon Shea, of Depraved English and Insulting English.

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