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An A-Z Look at Urban Dictionary's Literary Lexicon
An A-Z Look at Urban Dictionary's Literary Lexicon
By BBP Intern
February 28, 2013

Calling all fictionsexuals and bibliosexuals! Here's an alphabetical list of literary terms we bet even you weren't familiar with, culled from the geeky and disturbed pages of Urban Dictionary.

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Name Calling
Name Calling
By Kayla Blatchley
September 05, 2011

The Guardian blog culled a list of new insults from the recently published 12th edition of the Chambers Dictionary. As an "ink-jerker" myself ("professional author or journalist"), the list put me in mind of other insults and why they endure over others. Take an old favorite of mine: fat fuck.

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