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the devil s dictionary online unabridged a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z thedevil s dictionary com preface the devil s dictionary was begun in a weekly paper in 1881 and was continued in a desultory way and at long intervals until 1906 in that year a large part of it was published in covers with the title the cynic s word book a name which the author had not the power to reject nor the happiness to approve to quote the publishers of the present work this more reverent title had previously been forced upon him by the religious scruples of the last newspaper in which a part of the work had appeared with the natural consequence that when it came out in covers the country already had been flooded by its imitators with a score of cynic books the cynic s this the cynic s that and the cynic s t other most of these books were merely stupid though some of them added the distinction of silliness among them they brought the word cynic into disfavor so deep that any book bearing it was discredited in advance of publication meantime too some of the enterprising humorists of the country had helped themselves to such parts of the work as served their needs and many of its definitions anecdotes phrases and so forth had become more or less current in popular speech this explanation is made not with any pride of priority in trifles but in simple denial of possible charges of plagiarism which is no trifle in merely resuming his own the author hopes to be held guiltless by those to whom the work is addressed enlightened souls who prefer dry wines to sweet sense to sentiment wit to humor and clean english to slang a conspicuous and it is hoped not unpleasant feature of the book is its abundant illustrative quotations from eminent poets chief of whom is that learned and ingenious cleric father gassalasca jape s j whose lines bear his initials to father jape s kindly encouragement and assistance the author of the prose text is greatly indebted a b don t panic as a candid reference the devil s dictionary is often not safe for work nsfw more from mike leung the wonderful wizard of oz for screen tablet alice s adventures in wonderland for screen tablet dante s inferno for screen tablet pick bingo numbers anywhere contact mike email leave empty to submit your email subject message enable javascript to display preface e mail share twitter facebook