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Has Anybody Ever Heard Of " The Devil´s Dictionary"?

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piggynose | 08:39 Tue 21st May 2019 | ChatterBank
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this book seems to be only available in the original version, written by Ambrose Bierce. Does anybody know of a modern version/s?
thanks in advance
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Undertaker - A follower of the medical profession.
19:15 Tue 21st May 2019
I've
Only ever heard of the original. I don't know if there's an updated version.
Original here
http://www.thedevilsdictionary.com/
Looks like there is a newer one. whether it's as good as the original I don't know.
https://www.theverge.com/a/new-devils-dictionary
Yes, I have it on my shelf. I don't know if anyone has updated it but I doubt it.
Back in the day on Countdown, whenever Philip Franks was in Dictionary Corner he would always quote from The Devil's Dictionary and highly entertaining it was.
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could we start an ab devil´s dictionary?
Why not, piggy.

Lamentable - where male wedding guests can watch televised sport.
Foundry - London Transport Lost Property Office
answerbank - wilder than Bedlam
Farage pinstripe - patterned suit before you have spilt milkshae down it
Profitertroll

an internet troll who post any snide / nasty comments
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Suffragette - The act of slipping in the bidet.
Malefactor - What every woman has to take into account.
Extractor fan - someone who's gone right off farmyard machinery.
Undertaker - A follower of the medical profession.
I always liked SHOEBURYNESS: (nothing to do with the DD)
The sensation you get when sitting on a chair still warm from someone else’s posterior.
Meanness - A quality of mankind to have small boy syndrome: short arms and long pockets.
Farmer - a man outstanding in his field.
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No puns please

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