April 26th, 2013 / 1:50 am
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What are your favorite dictionaries?

10 Comments

  1. April 26th, 2013 / 7:41 am Quincy Rhoads—

      American Heritage is a personal fave.

  2. April 26th, 2013 / 8:59 am Bobby Dixon—

      Concise OED app is pretty good.

      Google dictionary extension for chrome is useful too. You can highlight a word in a web page and it brings up a quick def.

  3. April 26th, 2013 / 9:18 am shaun gannon—

      the devil’s dictionary

  4. April 26th, 2013 / 9:18 am Grant Maierhofer—

      once a library sale had this book that served to enrich one’s vocab by offering the roots of words and what that implies then giving examples and shit and it seemed like the greatest dictionary-ish thing I’d ever seen and it was 75 cents and I was broke so I didn’t get it, I’ve called and emailed them to ask if I could dig through the sale boxes to find it and pay for it, no deal. lols

  5. April 26th, 2013 / 10:52 am guywatchingbowling—

      Hash House Lingo by Jack Smiley

  6. April 26th, 2013 / 3:01 pm Don—

      Dictionaries I use:

      OED online/print (the best)
      Wordnik
      Dictionary.com
      whatever the dictionary application on Macs is
      Modern American Usage
      A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect (for Homeric Greek)
      LSJ (for Attic Greek)

  7. April 26th, 2013 / 4:12 pm Jubal_the_rattie—

      Pictorial Webster’s

  8. April 26th, 2013 / 6:41 pm Brendan Connell—

      Hirschfeld’s Consise Dictionary of Sexual Abberations

  9. April 27th, 2013 / 3:34 pm reynard—
  10. April 27th, 2013 / 9:07 pm Natian Herstine—

      At least six years ago somewhere on the internet I found this and have since coveted the book it came from:

      WOLF IN THE BREAST. An extraordinary mode of imposition, sometimes practised in the country by strolling women, who have the knack of counterfeiting extreme pain, pretending to have a small animal called a wolf in their breasts, which is continually gnawing them.

      Lexicon Balatronicum: A Dictionary of Buckish Slang, University Wit, and Pickpocket Eloquence, 1811