An Emotional Dictionary: Real Words for How You Feel, from Angst to Zwodder

Susie Dent, Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, and lexicographer extraordinaire, has compiled a list of 1001 terms everyone needs to know, including CWTCH, LALOCHEZIA, and PERTOLERANCE. This life-enhancing book will deepen your vocabulary and extend it, with unexpected stories and unforgettable words.

Format: Hardback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 13 October 2022
Publisher: John Murray Press

Whether it's the distress of a bad haircut (AGE-OTORI) or longing for the food someone else is eating (GROAKING), the pleasure found in other people's happiness (CONFELICITY) or the shock of jumping into icy water (CURGLAFF), there are real words to pinpoint exactly how you feel. Susie Dent, Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner and lexicographer extraordinaire, is going to help you find them.

Here are 1001 terms everyone needs, whether it's the best kind of hug (CWTCH), the relief found in swearing (LALOCHEZIA), or the ability to endure till the end (PERTOLERANCE). It's time to rediscover the lost positives of language (and be more GORM); find out how a stork gave us the word for the love between parent and child, and who the first MAVERICK was. Packed with unexpected stories and unforgettable words, on a mission to describe the indescribable, this life-enhancing book will deepen your vocabulary as much as it extends it.

Welcome to the first truly human dictionary, as idiosyncratic and unusual as you are.

Weight: 502g
Dimension: 142 x 224 x 37 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781529379679