Tsundoku (noun, Japanese): buying books and not reading them; letting books pile up unread on shelves or floors or nightstands. Tartle (verb, Scots): to hesitate while introducing or meeting someone because you have forgotten their name. Hoppípolla (verb phr., Icelandic): jumping into puddles. Discover these and many other words to surprise, delight, and enamor. Terms for flirtatious talk that leads nowhere, for the urge to peer into other people's...

From angst to zydeco, the ultimate guide to foreign terms and phrases. This handy, practical, and browsable A-to-Z reference tells you all you need to know to understand, pronounce, and appreciate the nearly 2,000 foreign words and phrases commonly used by speakers and writers of English. The Browser's Dictionary covers a wide variety of subject areas and includes loan-words from more than sixty languages around the world, such as: Latin (desideratum)...

Discusses the many loanwords that have entered the English vocabulary from North American Indian languages.

Fictitious letters that illustrate the use and meaning of long words, with vocabulary.

English and Latin. Includes index.