The Horologicon(or book of hours) gives you the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to the hour of the day when you really need them.

Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you’rephilogrobolized. Pretending to work? That’sfudgelling, which may lead torizzlingif you feel sleepy after lunch, though by dinner time you will have become a sparklingdeipnosophist.

From Mark Forsyth, author of the bestsellingThe Etymologicon, this is a book of weird words for familiar situations. Fromante-jentaculartosnudgeby way ofquafftideandwamblecropt, at last you can say, with utter accuracy, exactly what you mean.