Pecksniff

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English

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Etymology

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Seth Pecksniff, a sanctimonious surveyor and architect “who has never designed or built anything”, appears in Charles Dickens' novel Martin Chuzzlewit (1844).

Noun

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Pecksniff (plural Pecksniffs)

  1. A very hypocritical person.

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