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Samuel Johnson's Insults : A Compendium of Snubs, Sneers, Slights and Effronteries from the Eighteenth-Century Master
Samuel Johnson's Insults A Compendium of Snubs Sneers Slights and Effronteries from the EighteenthCentury Master
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. — Wo...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780802714282
ISBN-10: 0802714285
Publication Date: 4/1/2004
Pages: 112
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Publisher: Walker Company
Book Type: Hardcover
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