英语词汇pecksniff的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	pecksniff
词源	Pecksniff. An arch hypocrite who cants moral homilies even while acting immorally, any Pecksniff takes his name from Mr. Pecksniff, the hypocritical architect in Charles Dickens’s Mar- tin Chuzzlewitt (1843–44). See gamp.
随便看	on the spot on the spree on the square on the tip of my tongue on the town on the wagon on the warpath on the whole i’d rather be in philadelphia on the wrong side of the door when brains were handed out on tick on velvet on your own hook oo oof oomph op-ed page open and shut open sesame opera opera isn’t over until the fat lady sings opf oprah opsigamy opsimath oral days

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