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  • Real Words for How You Feel, from Angst to Zwodder
  • By: Susie Dent
  • Narrated by: Susie Dent
  • Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (8 ratings)
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Summary

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 and 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 audiobook will deepen your vocabulary as much as it extends it.

Welcome to the first truly human dictionary, as idiosyncratic and unusual as you are.
©2022 Susie Dent (P)2022 Hodder & Stoughton Limited
Words, Language & Grammar Comedy & Humour
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Easy listening, funny, and interesting. Love susie dent and she doesn’t disappoint in narrating this. Thanks very much for a fab read.

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This is an obscure sorrow of a book

Announced just after the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows, this is not a good listen.

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