This is a new release of the original 1943 edition.

The Funny Dictionary' is a comic dictionary comprising funny definitions based on genuine and innocent mistakes perpetrated by school children, illustrated with images from the National Library's photography collection. 'The Funny Dictionary' contains only genuine student bloopers. The definitions are not inventions by the author, but rather the product of the imagination, innocence, and accidental insights of school children across the decades. The result is a hilarious read that invites us not only to laugh but also test our own knowledge.

A good joke can lift the lowest spirits, enliven the dullest party, or be a welcome icebreaker at the start of a speech. But why is it so hard to find that key quip when you need it? Now anyone can have the best jokes at their fingertips with this comprehensive collection of the finest, funniest, most up-to-date gags, rib-ticklers, and silly one-liners ever. Organized by subject and containing side-splitters stolen from such wits as Groucho Marx, Orson Welles, Mark Twain, and P. J. O'Rourke, among many, many others, this volume assures those who use it that they will never again be at a loss for words that produce giggles galore.

A collection of gags, rib-ticklers and plain silly one-liners. Organised by subject matter (from Absence - via Insults - to Writers), it contains side-splitters stolen from such wits as Groucho Marx, Orson Welles, Mark Twain and P J O'Rourke.