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, delight, and even stump the most word-wary pundits. Suffix it to say, you'll never look at diphthong the same way again.
"Sharpen your pun cells. Lewis Gediman and his pun pals have created a fictionary of daffynitions that will exercise your mind's muscles ("mollusks") and sinews ("misbehaving female sheep")."
Richard Lederer, author of Anguished English and Get Thee to a Punnery
