snollygoster
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of snollygoster
First recorded in 1845–50; origin uncertain
Example Sentences
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Mr. Truman's tone left no doubt that a snollygoster was a low creature indeed, but few, if any, of his hearers knew what snollygoster meant.
From Time Magazine Archive
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.'
From Time Magazine Archive
I believe that the word "snollygoster" is a degeneration of this expression .
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