A Dictionary of Euphemisms: How Not To Say What You Mean (Oxford Paperback Reference) - Softcover

Holder, R. W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198607628 ISBN 13: 9780198607625

Verlag: OUP Oxford, 2003

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The Oxford Dictionary of Euphemisms is a gold mine for anyone who enjoys words (Writing Magazine)

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Now in paperback, this brand new edition of A Dictionary of Euphemisms: How Not To Say What You Mean is still as lively a guide to the language of evasion, hypocrisy, prudery, and deceit as you could wish for. Packed full of the old favourites, such as 'early bath' or 'push up the daisies', as well as euphemisms from modern times, like 'human sacrifice', 'coffee-housing', and 'tuft-hunter'. Definitions include examples from literature and the press, along with historical explanations of origins, and now obsolete euphemisms like 'leaping house', 'nightingale' are signposted as such. And to prove that the use of euphemisms is not just a British speciality, there is widespread coverage of American euphemisms too: 'English' (pertaining to sexual deviance), 'watermelon' (an indication of pregnancy).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0198607628
• ISBN 13: 9780198607625
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 3
• Anzahl der Seiten: 524