The Scribbler's Lexicon: Words for the Well-Read

In The Scribbler's Lexicon: Words for the Well-Read, more than 4,500 of the most interesting, useful, and unjustly neglected words are assembled and presented in a manner never attempted before. This lexical treasury is a gift and a labour of love for word-lovers and devotees of English language and literature.



Selected from the cream of the language's most interesting uncommon words, this lexicon is organised as a compendium of 77 thematic categories, in a manner that is uniquely well suited for browsing. For logophiles, scribblers and wordsmiths of every kind, this is truly the book to satisfy one's lexical cravings.



For those who are perfectly capable of describing someone as a hearty eater, but would have preferred to say 'trencherman', if only they'd known the word; for those who wanted to know that an event at the twilight hour is 'crepuscular', that a sooty face is 'fuliginous', that the colour of the peacock is 'pavonious', that a nudist is an 'Adamite', that one's conjugal partner might be one's 'yokefellow', and that a gift given by a host to the guests is a 'xenium': this resource should serve the creative endeavours of such readers and writers well, as a source of profit, pleasure, and delight. Read more Continue reading Read less