Synopses & Reviews
and#8220;Dirtand#8221; cleans up! Jonathon Greenand#8217;s previous compilation, The Big Book of Filth, sold more than 100,000 copies.Smuttier, ruder, and better than ever, with 5,000 richly humorous phrases. Drink and drugs, scatology, sex, insults, money: these are the main preoccupations of the delightfully dirty slang so colorfully defined and illustrated in this no-holds-barred follow-up to the bestselling Big Book of Filth. Those with and#8220;politically correctand#8221; and delicate sensibilities can tune out; broad-minded readers will dig in to discover terms of affirmation, approbation, contempt, and dismissal, as well as oaths, acronyms, and abbreviations. No group is exempt in this equal-opportunity verbal abuser, from the criminal underworld to the upper classes, children to fat persons, and every ethnicity. Among the 100 titillating A-Z topics: Coitus Interruptus; Dazed and Confused; Doo-Doo (to be in deep); Frankly, My Dear, I Donand#8217;t Give a Damn; Harm, Trouble and Strife; Masturbation; and more.