Culled from Grose's Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, edited by Francis Grose, Esquire: London, 1823, and with Epitome provided for introduction into the modern parlance.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Nescio
A person playing dumb
"Max knows that I hate plum tomatoes but insists on putting them in our dinner salad. Then I complain, and he throws up his hands and grunts like a total nescio. Aargh!"
Hi. My first novel, Rock Bottom, was published by Back Bay Books/Little, Brown, in 2009, and is being staged as a musical by the Landless Theater Company in 2011. I am working on novels in which mishaps occur, and people must make those mishaps right, though sometimes they would prefer to just lie around and watch TV. I also teach at Seattle University, and prefer sunny days.
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