Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language - Softcover

Daly, Mary; Caputi, Jane; Rakusin, Sudie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 070434114X ISBN 13: 9780704341142

Publisher: Womens Pr Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

Book by Daly, Mary, Caputi, Jane, Rakusin, Sudie

About this title

From the Publisher:

Mary Daly's brilliant, wild, and humor-filled weave of words, which frees the English language from its patriarchal and confining patterns by weaving a fascinating, feminist, linguistic revolution.

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fool n [derived fr. L follis bellows, bag, akin to Gk phallos penis (found at blow)-Webster's; also derived from Indo-European root bhel- "to blow, swell; with derivatives referring to various round objects and to the notion of tumescent masculinity"-American Heritage, Appendix on Indo-European Roots] : archetypal player on the stage/foreground of phallocracy: bellowing fellow, windbag; cockaludicrous parader of "round objects"; exposer/exponent of tumescent masculinity fooldom n 1 : the domain of wantwits and fools: PHALLOCRACY 2 : the common non-sense of the Numbed State; the accumulated "wisdom" (bull) of bullocracy

About this edition

• Publisher: Womens Pr Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 070434114X
• ISBN 13: 9780704341142
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 310