The Silly Book of Weird and Wacky Words
1st Edition
Published on 3. December 2015
160 pages
978-1-4088-6684-9 (ISBN)
Description
Do you know what 'park your jam on the frog' means? Fancy some ognib? What rhymes with 'circus'? ...plus many more amazing things you never knew about words.
Have hours of fun wixing up your murds with this hilarious book, packed full of rhymes, puns, games, jokes, gibberish and more.
Have hours of fun wixing up your murds with this hilarious book, packed full of rhymes, puns, games, jokes, gibberish and more.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Children/juvenile
Reading Age: From 7 years
ISBN-13
978-1-4088-6684-9 (9781408866849)
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Andy Seed
The Silly Book of Weird and Wacky Words
Book
06/2015
Bloomsbury Childrens Books
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Person
Andy Seed is an author and poet, living in North Yorkshire. He writes memoirs, funny poems and humorous non-fiction books as well as all sorts of things for teachers. Andy's most popular book for adults is All Teachers Great and Small and his most popular book for children is the poetry collection Razzle Dazzle.
Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- Juicy Jokes and Riddles
- One-liners
- Wildlife wit
- Bumper stickers
- Riddles to untwiddle
- Brain-ache riddles
- Nutty riddles
- Top notch knock knocks
- New ones
- Doctor, Doctor!
- What do you call a man.
- What do you call a woman.
- Wheely good
- Graffiti
- Q&A puns
- Punorama
- Commercial comedy
- Lesser-known songs
- Weird Words and Funny Phrases
- Intriguing words beginning with Q
- Five long words
- Whatsits
- A quotum of obsolete words
- Hyphenated alphabet
- Funny words
- Silly words
- They didn't have those when I were a lad.
- Techno-babble
- Txt SSIF
- Lexi-con
- Nonsense words
- Sniglets
- Old news about oxymorons
- Pleonasms from past history
- Horse idioms
- More beastly words
- Old school exclamations
- Tabloid speak
- Estate agent speak
- Classic film and comic clichés
- Tasty Tongue Twisters
- Little rhymes to try
- Announcer's test
- Phrustrating frases
- Tongue-tripping places
- Natty Names and Titles
- What the Dickens?
- Shakespearean Shtyle
- Just Nutty Names
- Interesting American Towns
- Rather Rude UK Place Names
- Wacky Inns
- They call me The -
- Nicknames of note: sporty people
- A varied collection of individuals
- Footballers allowed in Scrabble
- Regional nicknames
- Strange song titles
- Place aliases
- Nicknames for everything
- Spiffing Spoonerisms
- Spoken by Spooner?
- Church shockers
- More tips of the slung
- mangled media
- Witty Wordplay Poems
- Limericks
- Lampooning limericks
- Punny Poems
- Puzzling poems
- Odd odes
- The Rev Spooner's Favourite Olympic Events
- Epitaphs
- A Slice o' Slang
- How's your vernacular?
- Jocular terms
- Cockney rhyming slang
- Hi spec colloquialisms
- Baby talk
- Street speak
- Internet slang
- Football lingo
- Biker dictionary
- Surfer cipher
- Other People's English
- Regional parlance
- Friendly terms of address
- Oz and them
- Our mates in the States
- Coined in the States
- Global gobbledygook
- Well past it: ancestral wordplay
- Those certainly are chaic
- Miscellaneous Malarkey
- Puntastic banners
- Proverbial pandemonium
- Portmanteau creations
- 12 Expressions from Shakespeare
- Double dictionary
- Daffynitions
- RAQs
- Rubbish anagrams
- Suspect sentences
- Paraprosdokians
- Abbreviation variation
- Gibberish
- Ubbi Dubbi
- Pig Latin
- Other sneaky languages
- Nonsense-shmonsense!
- Mondo mondegreens
- Peculiar palindromes
- Looney Tunes catchphrases
- Haven't a clue?
- Just nutty
- If the only vowel was O...
- Waki wikis
- Blend-a-book
- Wacky Word Games
- Yabber yabber
- Never-ending sentence
- Nuttinitials
- Endy
- Road sign countdown
- Alpha memory
- The minister's cat
- I don't spy
- In with the new
- Adder
- Ghost
- Games in brief: talking
- Consequences
- Ognib
- Listo
- Namegame
- More writing games
- Jumblets
- Modify your mates
- Crackit?
- Answers
- Further Information
