| 词汇 | snollygoster |
| 词源 | snollygoster. One very rarely hears this word today, but in the 19th century it was a common Americanism for “a preten- tious boaster.” The word is probably a fanciful formation coined by some folk poet who liked its appropriate sound; it is first re- corded in 1862. A Georgia editor defined a snollygoster as a “fellow who wants office regardless of party, platform or princi- ples, and who, whenever he wins, gets there by the sheer force of monumental talknophical assumacy.” The type is still com- mon, even if the word isn’t. |
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