Friday, February 02, 2007

Samuel Johnson Ninny Buttons

Through our lives, we strive to hone many skills. No skill is more useful than an artfully delivered put down. As you work on this skill, you must have the right tools. Here are a dozen of S. Johnson's (who was the king of acerbity).
  • blunderhead
  • fopdoodle
  • high-viced
  • lackbrain
  • oysterwench
  • scambler
  • slubberdegullion
  • tosspot
  • pickthank
  • draffy
  • ninnyhammer
If you can not bring yourself to use these words in polite conversation, you can purchase these magnetic insult buttons at Levengers for a substantially reduced price. You may also need SJ's dictionary so that you can understand what some of the more elusive words (e.g. slubberdegullion) mean.
http://www.levenger.com/PAGETEMPLATES/PRODUCT/Product.asp?Params=Category=18-125|Level=2-3|pageid=3843|Link=Txt

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I didn't realize that Samuel Johnson's original dictionary is available. Thank you for telling us!