From Mark Forsyth, the author of the #1 international bestseller,
The Etymologicon
, comes a book of weird words for familiar situations.
The Horologicon
(or book of hours) contains the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to what hour of the day you might need them.
Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you’re
philogrobolized
.
Find yourself pretending to work? That’s
fudgelling
And this could lead to
rizzling
, if you feel sleepy after lunch. Though you are sure to become a sparkling
deipnosopbist
by dinner. Just don’t get too
vinomadefied
; a drunk dinner companion is never appreciated.
From
ante-jentacular
to
snudge
by way of
quafftide
and
wamblecropt
, at last you can say, with utter accuracy, exactly what you mean.