Grandiloquent Words
Grandiloquent Words: A Pictoric Lexicon of Ostrobogulous Locutions (2023)
by Jason Travis Ott
My antenna is always up for new word power books in English.
You could even say I scent ‘em before I see ‘em. They’re like our fabulous Indian curries. You smell the masala before you reach the table.
So during my recent visit to the library, I scampered over to the New Arrivals section.
Voila, I spotted a new word power book, Grandiloquent Words (by Jason Travis Ott). Never has a word power book lived up to its name like this one.
The 229-page book is divided into six chapters:
- Mundane Morphemes (everyday words)
- Elucidating Locutions (literature and knowledge)
- Beef-Witted Blatteroons (insults and antonyms),
- Corporeal Catastrophes (bodily bummers)
- Playful Patois (trysts and dalliances)
- Jolly Jubilations (happiness and celebration)
With every grandiloquent word, you get the meaning, pronunciation, origin and its use in a sentence. Also, we get whether the word is a noun, verb or adjective. Many of the words include an antonym too. Altogether, the book contains 228 words.
Here’s a small sample of interesting words I picked up from Grandiloquent Words:
- Chouse (to cheat, deceive, trick; used as both verb and noun)
- Sleekie (servile flatterer, fawner)
- Bdolotic (inclined to farting)
- Dewdropper (a person who revels all night and sleeps all day)
- Imbonity (a lack of goodness)
- Gandermooner (a husband who is skirt-chasing when his wife is pregnant and for some time after she gives birth)
- Poculation (drinking of alcohol)
- Rawgabbit (a person speaking about topics beyond his knowledge)
- Princox (a coxcomb, conceited person)
- Soft-soap (flatter)
- Rident (in high spirits, cheerful)
- Snollygoster (shrewd person not bothered by principles)
- Custril (fool, idiot or silly person)
- Empleomania (excessive eagerness to hold public office)
- Hulch (to hug)
- Gobemouche (gullible person)
- Ataraxy (imperturbed, state of being undisturbed)
- Hubbleshoo (confused throng of people)
- Collybist (miser, usurer, money changer)
Grandiloquent Words is a great find and logophiles will love this book.