{"product_id":"9781612191447","title":"Intoxerated","description":"\u003cb\u003eA smart, hilarious, and lavishly illustrated guide to the most euphemised word in the English language: Drunk\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA record-breaking assemblage of 2,964 different ways to say \"drunk.\" Tipsy, roasted, three sheets, whazooed and Boris Yeltsinned are just the beginning....With an introduction by the wise-guy lexicographer himself, Paul Dickson, and illustrations by renowned artist Brian Rea.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDickson, who holds the \u003ci\u003eGuiness World Record\u003c\/i\u003e for collecting the most words for being, er, not sober, not only provides a dictionary of those words, but reveals why there are so many synonyms for being \"drunk,\" and how he came to collect more of them than anyone else.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe terms are annotated, too, and lushly illustrated, explaining the twist and turns of a language that has thousands of ways to say the same thing. How, for example, does a word like \"blotto\" go from the lips of P.G. Wodehouse, into the writings of Edmund Wilson, before landing with Otto from \u003ci\u003eThe Simpson\u003c\/i\u003e's (\"My name is Otto, I like to get blotto\").\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Trade Paperback edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Melville House Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47169569751280,"sku":"9781612191447","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781612191447_p0.jpg?v=1763848054","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781612191447","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}