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Webster's First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language - Softcover

DALY, Mary & Jane Caputi

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9780807067338: Webster's First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language
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ISBN 10: 0807067334 ISBN 13: 9780807067338
Publisher: Beacon, 1987

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Mary Daly's brilliant, wild, and humor-filled weave of words, which frees the English language from its patriarchal and confining patterns by weaving a fascinating, feminist, linguistic revolution.

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fool n [derived fr. L follis bellows, bag, akin to Gk phallos penis (found at blow)-Webster's; also derived from Indo-European root bhel- "to blow, swell; with derivatives referring to various round objects and to the notion of tumescent masculinity"-American Heritage, Appendix on Indo-European Roots] : archetypal player on the stage/foreground of phallocracy: bellowing fellow, windbag; cockaludicrous parader of "round objects"; exposer/exponent of tumescent masculinity fooldom n 1 : the domain of wantwits and fools: PHALLOCRACY 2 : the common non-sense of the Numbed State; the accumulated "wisdom" (bull) of bullocracy

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Publisher
Beacon
Publication date
1987
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0807067334
ISBN 13 
9780807067338
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
310
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