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snollygoster
[ snol-ee-gos-ter ]
noun
- a clever, unscrupulous person.
亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of snollygoster1
Example Sentences
In his social media posts, he loves to sprinkle in a few 25-cent words such as 鈥渇arrago鈥 or even 鈥渟nollygoster.鈥
And who might the lexicographers have had in mind a month ago when they reported that they added back to the dictionary the word 鈥渟nollygoster, 鈥榓 shrewd & unprincipled person, especially an unprincipled politician鈥 鈥?
Imagine my delight yesterday when I caught sight of 'snollygoster', my adopted rare word from Save The 亚洲网紅露点s, in the Fiver 鈥 used in a perfectly good sentence no less.
I believe that the word "snollygoster" is a degeneration of this expression .
A Georgia editor kindly explains that 'a snollygoster is a fellow who wants office regardless of party, platform or principles and who, whenever he wins, gets there by the sheer force of monumental talknothical assumnacy.'
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