About the Book: Words for Life: To Boost Every Day of the Year
Whatever you need, Susie Dent has a word for it.
Do you know the name for someone who loves reading in bed, or what a
binfluencer does? How about the medieval invention of Lubberland as a place for
lazy teenagers, or the story of Mayday as a request for help? Lexicographer
extraordinaire and Queen of Countdowns Dictionary Corner, Susie Dent does and
here are her greatest discoveries.
From wabbit to dust bunnies, and from the strange history of arse to the best
ways to describe moonlight, Words for