Semantricks

At last, a book for the American Idle. Here is a punny new dictionary of inventive definitions of real words. Acrimony: Spousal support payments following bitter divorce Friction: Novel that rubs you the wrong way Negligence: Woman's forgotten dressing gown Zinfandel: Heathen wine Ranging from the merely fetched ( Spaniel: Iberian canine ) to the far-fetched ( Buccaneer: Piracy in corn pricing ) to the neurologically suspect ( Giraffe: Very tall spotted decanter ), Semantricks will surprise, del