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Alcohol wordlore and folklore : being a compendium of linguistic and social fact and fantasy associa

Abel, Ernest L., 1943-
Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, c1987. 1987

Cassell's dictionary of word and phrase origins

Rees, Nigel, 1944-
London : Cassell, 2002. 2002

A comprehensive etymological dictionary of the English language. Dealing with the origin of words an

Klein, Ernest.
Amsterdam, New York [etc.] Elsevier, 1966- 1966

The concise Oxford dictionary of English etymology

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 1993. 2000

Dictionary of word and phrase origins,

Morris, William, 1913-1994
New York, Harper & Row [1962- 1962

Dictionary of word and phrase origins

Manser, Martin, author.
Cork : BookBaby, 2018. 2022

Dog days and dandelions : a lively guide to the animal meanings behind everyday words

Barnette, Martha.
New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press, 2003. 2003

An etymological dictionary of modern English.

Weekley, Ernest, 1865-1954.
New York, Dover Publications [1967] 1967

An etymological dictionary of the English language.

Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William), 1835-1912
Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1882. 1882

An etymological dictionary of the English language,

Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William), 1835-1912.
Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1910. 1910

The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

Abingdon : Helicon, 2006. 2006

Keywords : a vocabulary of culture and society

Williams, Raymond.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1976. 1976

Loose cannons and red herrings : a book of lost metaphors

Claiborne, Robert.
New York : Ballantine, 1989, c1988. 1989

Medical meanings : a glossary of word origins

Haubrich, William S.
Philadelphia : American College of Physicians, c2003. 2003

Morris dictionary of word and phrase origins

Morris, William, 1913-1994
New York : Harper & Row, c1988. 1988

Morris Dictionary of word and phrase origins

Morris, William, 1913-1994
New York : Harper & Row, c1977. 1977

The origin of medical terms.

Skinner, Henry Alan.
Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1961. 1961

Origins; a short etymological dictionary of modern English.

Partridge, Eric, 1894-1979
New York, Macmillan, 1966. 1966

The origins of English words : a discursive dictionary of Indo-European roots

Shipley, Joseph T. (Joseph Twadell), 1893-1988
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1984. 1984

The Oxford dictionary of allusions

Delahunty, Andrew.
Oxford, [England] ; New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, c2001. 2001

The Oxford dictionary of English etymology,

Onions, C. T. (Charles Talbut), 1873-1965.
Oxford, Clarendon P., 1966. 1966

Oxford dictionary of word origins

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021. 2021

The Oxford dictionary of word origins

[Oxford] : Oxford University Press, 2009- 2009

The compact edition of the Oxford English dictionary : complete text reproduced micrographically.

Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1971. 1971

QPB encyclopedia of word and phrase origins

Hendrickson, Robert, 1933-
New York : Facts on File, 2004. 2004

A thesaurus of English word roots

Danner, Horace G., author.
Lanham, Maryland ; Plymouth, England : Rowman & Littlefield, 2014. 2014

An universal etymological English dictionary comprehending the derivations of the generality of word

Bailey, N. (Nathan), -1742.
London : Printed for J. Darby, ... [et al.], 1728. 1728

Where words come from : a dictionary of word origins

Sedgwick, Fred, author.
London, [England] ; New York, New York : Continuum, 2009. 2009

Wicked words a treasury of curses, insults, put-downs, and other formerly unprintable terms from Ang

Rawson, Hugh.
New York [N.Y.] : Crown Publishers, c1989 (Boston, Mass. : Credo Reference, 2012.) 2012

Word histories and mysteries from abracadabra to Zeus

Boston [Mass.] : Houghton Mifflin Co., c2004 (Boston, Mass. : Credo Reference, 2012.) 2012