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Title: The Foolish Dictionary

Author: Gideon Wurdz

Illustrator: Wallace Goldsmith

Release Date: April 1, 2007 [EBook #1989]

Language: English

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[Illustration: GIDEON WURDZ.]

The
FOOLISH
DICTIONARY

An exhausting work of reference
to un-certain English words, their
origin, meaning, legitimate
and illegitimate use,
confused by
A FEW PICTURES

BY WALLACE GOLDSMITH

_Executed by_
GIDEON WURDZ
_Master of Pholly, Doctor of Loquacious
Lunacy, Fellow of the Royal
Gibe Society, etc., etc._

COVER DESIGNED BY E.B. BIRD

JOHN. W. LUCE AND COMPANY
BOSTON MDCCCCIV

_Copyright, 1904, by_ THE
ROBINSON, LUCE COMPANY