The Big Book of Bodily Functions

Introduction by Jonathan Green

ISBN 10: 030435743X / ISBN 13: 9780304357437

Published by Cassell, London, 2001

About this Item

12mo [approx 12.7x18.7cm]. Fine copy in Near Fine dustjacket. DJ now protected in our purpose-made clear archival plastic sleeve. An excellent copy. Illustrated with black & white cartoons by Dan Pearce. 350 pages. 4,500 words for bodily functions and parts. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.

Seller Inventory # 330940

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Big Book of Bodily Functions
• Publisher: Cassell, London
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 030435743X
• ISBN 13: 9780304357437
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Companion to the bestselling Big Book of Filth! An unabashed scat-fest supplies colorful and inventive metaphors, idioms, and euphemisms, along with their etymology, for every imaginable corporal emission, whether solid, liquid, or gaseous. Drawing on prison jargon, street lingo, college colloquialisms, and classical literature, a leading slang lexicographer turns his attention to defecation, ejaculation, belches, boogers, and breaking wind. More than 4,500 salacious synonyms for anal, urinary, genital, and oral functions--and malfunctions--display the verbal ingenuity of slangsters through the ages.

About the Author

Jonathon Green is a well known writer and broadcaster with a particular interest in colloquial English and slang. His many credits include the Macmillan Dictionary of Contemporary Slang, Slang Down the Ages, Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-Makers and the Dictionaries They Made, the critically acclaimed Cassell's Dictionary of Slang and the bestselling Big Book of Filth and Big Book of Being Rude. Jonathon Green lives in central London.