Burgess Unabridged: A New Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed

Burgess Unabridged: A New Dictionary Of Words You Have Always Needed – is a work written by Gelett Burgess, an American art critic, artist, author, poet and humorist. This book is an entertaining dictionary of linguistic inventions, originally published in 1914. Some of his made-up words have since become fun parts of the English language, while others have never been used. The interest is when and how this word appeared and began to be used. In addition to detailed word definitions from his vocabulary, short essays are written that describe the different uses for each word, as well as a clever eight-line poem that shows the word in action. Every page of this book is educational and entertaining in equal measure. Also in the book, there are illustrations defining some of the words from this dictionary.