Have you been guilty of catachresisat work? Have you defenestratedyour dictionary in frustration? Do you have phloem bundlesstuck in your diastema? Scratching your occiputnow?Rod L. Evans'sThingamajigs and Whatchamacallitswill help take the mystery out of some of our most obscure words. Containing hundreds of words from agitron (the phenomenon of wiggly lines in comic strips indicating that something is shaking) to zarf (the holder for a paper cone coffee cup), this lively reference will enable you to easily locate your thingamajig or whatchamacallit, be it animal, vegetable, mineral, or punctuation mark.Leave no linguistic oddity unexamined-your brain will thank you.catachresis: strained, paradoxical, or incorrect use of a word;defenestrate: to throw out a window;phloem bundles: stringy bits between the skin and the edible parts of a banana;diastema: the gap between teeth in a jaw;...