Book of Insults Ancient and Modern
Author : Nancy McPhee
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Page : pages
File Size : 10,4 MB
Release : 1981-12-01
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ISBN : 9780751514025
Author : Nancy McPhee
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Page : pages
File Size : 10,4 MB
Release : 1981-12-01
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ISBN : 9780751514025
Author : Nancy McPhee
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Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,88 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Invective
ISBN : 9781566196864
Author : Nancy McPhee
Publisher : Sphere
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 21,40 MB
Release : 1980-01
Category : Invective
ISBN : 9780708819074
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Page : 160 pages
File Size : 30,47 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Invective
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Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,17 MB
Release : 1987
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Author : Outlet
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,62 MB
Release : 1988-12
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ISBN : 9780517371527
Author : Nancy McPhee
Publisher : Bounty Books
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 26,94 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9781851522859
A collection of almost 1000 derogatory literary and historical quotations, ranging from the venomous to the merely bitchy, and linked by an amusing commentary. The book is a combination of The Book of Insults Ancient and Modern and The Complete Book of Insults.
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Page : 292 pages
File Size : 25,26 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Invective
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Author : Julie Tibbott
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 50,54 MB
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Reference
ISBN : 1621450678
Do you long for the days when a jerk was a “cad”? Want to tell that “swillbelly” to clean up his table manners and that grumbling “glump” to stop whining? Would you like a way of saying simpleton that’s not quite so simple—“ninnyhammer,” perhaps? All this nastiness and more can be found in the pages of this fun reference book. With insults ranging from Roman times (lutum lenonium = filthy pimp) and Shakespearean snipes (I’m talking to you, you knotty-pated fool) to salty pirate-speak and Wild West zingers, you’re sure to find an insult for everyone, be they a helminth (a parasite in Ancient Greece) or a swinge-buckler (an Elizabethan braggart). Chapters are organized chronologically by historical period—Ancient Attacks, Medieval Madness, Edgy Elizabethans, Victorian Venom, Jazz Age Jibes, and Cold War Cuts—and include themed sidebars focusing on Pirate Put-Downs, Hobo Huffs, and Cowboy Curses, as well as samplers for words with many different sayings per period. Fun, a little bit lewd, and incredibly informative this is a must-read for humor fans, history buffs, armchair etymologists, and the most sneaping of breedbates.
Author : Jerome Neu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 26,2 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 019531431X
Examines the nature and place of insults in daily life, discussing how insults influence a person's beliefs and impressions about others' character, honor, gender, intentions, conventions, and power.