pecksniff
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of pecksniff
First recorded in 1910–15; see origin at Pecksniffian
Example Sentences
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And yet every time someone from my generation talks about how important phones are to democracy, there’s always some old pecksniff primly telling us that our phones don’t give us real democracy.
From Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town by Doctorow, Cory
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