Words for LifeTo Boost Every Day of the Year\nAuthor(s): Susie Dent\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: John Murray Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781399820660, 978-1399820660\nSynopsis\nWhatever you need, Susie Dent has a word for it. \n\nDo you know the name for someone who loves reading in bed, or what a binfluencer does? How about the medieval invention of Lubberland as a place for lazy teenagers, or the story of Mayday as a request for help? Lexicographer extraordinaire and Queen of Countdown's Dictionary Corner, Susie Dent does and here are her greatest discoveries.\n\nFrom wabbit to dust bunnies, and from the strange history of arse to the best ways to describe moonlight, Words for Life offers a full year's supply of verbal vitamins guaranteed to brighten and boost every day. Here you will learn of the Mother-in-Law's Dream as well as the Yuleshard, and discover expressions that can fix (or at least nail) the problems of modern life, whether .