Letter B

BED-SWERVER

A word for an unfaithful lover, invented by Shakespeare.

BIBLIOMANIA

If you’re crazy about books, then you’re a bibliomaniac. In which case you probably best stay away from bibliokleptomaniacs, who are equally crazy about stealing books.

BROTICOLE

Rats, mice, spiders, house martins and swallows, foxes and raccoons are all broticoles—namely, organisms that like to live alongside humans, or around our houses and buildings.

BOOKSTAFF

An old name for a letter of the alphabet.

BLENKY

To blenky means “to snow very lightly.”