Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits: Unfamiliar Terms for Familiar Things

Have you been guilty of catachresis* at work? Have you defenestrated* your dictionary in frustration? Do you have phloem bundles* stuck in your diastema*? Scratching your occiput* now? <br><br> Rod L. Evans's <i>Thingamajigs and Whatchamacallits</i> will help take the mystery out of some of our most obscure words. Containing hundreds of words from <b>agitron</b> (the phenomenon of wiggly lines in comic strips indicating that something is shaking) to <b>zarf</b> (the holder for a paper cone coffee cup) , this lively reference will enable you to easily locate your thingamajig or whatchamacallit, be it animal, vegetable, mineral, or punctuation mark. <br><br> Leave no linguistic oddity unexamined-your brain will thank you. <br><br> <i>*catachresis: strained, paradoxical, or incorrect use of a word; <br> *defenestrate: to throw out a window; <br> *phloem bundles: stringy bits between the skin and the edible parts of a banana; <br> *diastema: the gap between teeth in a jaw; <br> *occiput: the back part of the head or skull </i>