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Let's Bring Back: The Lost Language Edition: A Collection of Forgotten-Yet-Delightful Words, Phrases, Praises, Insults, Idioms, and Literary Flourishes from Eras Past
Lesley M.M. Blume
A Pocket Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue: (Funny Book of Vintage British Swear Words, 18th Century English Curse Words and Slang)
Francis Grose
Historical Dictionary of Surrealism (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts)
Keith Aspley
More Weird and Wonderful Words
Erin McKean
Totally Weird and Wonderful Words
Grossman's Glossary of Every Humorous Word in the English Language
Richard Grossman
Xenia: A Hoard of Lost Words, Eighteenth-Century Street Lingo, and a Few Completely Confabulated Terms Collected and Exemplified
Coleman Barks
Amazons, Bluestockings, and Crones: A Woman's Companion to Words and Ideas
Cheris Kramarae
Barrelhouse Words: A Blues Dialect Dictionary
Stephen Calt
Rigmaroles & Ragamuffins: Unpicking Words We Derive from Textiles
Elinor Kapp
101 Two-Letter Words
Stephin Merritt
Scribal Skips: 2000 Words That Fell Out of the Bible
Wayne A. Mitchell
Shallow Water Dictionary: A Grounding in Estuary English
John R. Stilgoe
Vulgar Tongues
Max Décharné
The Machine Knitter's Dictionary
Linda Gartshore
Weird Words: A Lovecraftian Lexicon
Dan Clore
Dictionary of Spiritualism
Harry E. Wedeck
Authorisms: Words Wrought by Writers
Paul Dickson
Grandiloquent Words: A Pictoric Lexicon of Ostrobogulous Locutions
Jason Travis Ott
Dream Sight: A Dictionary and Guide for Interpreting Any Dream
Michael Lennox
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
Ambrose Bierce
Dictionary of Imaginary Places
Alberto Manguel
The Word Nerd Dictionary of Obscure & Enchanting Words
Kaelin Witt
First 1000 Nature Words (Clever Big Encyclopedia)
Clever Publishing
The Disheveled Dictionary: A Curious Caper Through Our Sumptuous Lexicon – A Whimsical Reference to Words That Surprise and Delight
Karen Elizabeth Gordon
Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words from Around the World
Ella Frances Sanders
Reader's Digest Illustrated Reverse Dictionary
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Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
John Ayto
Logodaedaly, or Sleight-of-Words
Erzsébet Gilbert
The Lost Words
Robert Macfarlane
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