pecksniffian

PRONUNCIATION:
(pek-SNIF-ee-uhn)

MEANING:
adjective: Pretending to have high moral principles; sanctimonious, hypocritical.

ETYMOLOGY:
After Seth Pecksniff, a character in Charles Dickens’s novel Martin Chuzzlewit. Earliest documented use: 1844.

NOTES:
Charles Dickens describes Pecksniff like this: “Some people likened him to a direction-post, which is always telling the way to a place, and never goes there.”

USAGE:
“She said, ‘Davis, stop being such a Pecksniffian stuffed shirt.'”
Jay Inman; Sunigin; WestBow Press; 2012.

“In the meantime, the pecksniffian French consul was feigning indignation.”
Bob Stockton; Fighting Bob; AuthorHouse; 2011.

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Sat, 08:00 it begins with candy crush, zookeeper vs on kindle

Sat 10:30: time for Lego Marvel super heroes

Sat, 15:59: RT @WillJPowers: Shit, Extra Life servers were hit by a DDOS attack.

Sat, 15:59: RT @WillJPowers: What’s the motivation to attack a charity site? I really don’t understand

Sat, 22:14: I received a $100.00 donation supporting Extra Life! http://t.co/RD30paGdoa

Sun, 00:01: Time for red dead redemption. Just finished some night at the inventory 2 and gtav online

Sun, 05:43: Exit red dead. One hand of inventory and back to kindle games for my brain I s pudding

Sun, 07:45: Ending with plague inc. Gnight in 15 min

Red dead redemption is still great. MARVEL Lego is fun but the freezes are distressing. I’m sure they’ll be patched soon. Serves me right for playing first week.

http://www.extra-life.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=donorDrive.participant&participantID=55271

Getting game face on for extra life marathon to help sick kids at Johns Hopkins !

Me sans boogeyman mask after my time as guard and gatekeeper at Westminster was up. Over 750 tonight. Nearly double last year’s number.

Rick thinks I need to shop in an explosion, and I agree.

smellfungus

PRONUNCIATION:
(smel-FUNG-uhs)

MEANING:
noun: A habitual faultfinder or complainer.

ETYMOLOGY:
After Smelfungus, a hypercritical character in Laurence Sterne’s 1768 novel, A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy. Earliest documented use: 1807.

NOTES:
Novelist Laurence Sterne modeled his character Smelfungus after traveler and author Tobias Smollett who complained about almost everything in his 1766 travel book Travels through France and Italy. Here’s how Sterne describes Smelfungus:

“The learned Smelfungus travelled from Boulogne to Paris, from Paris to Rome, and so on; but he set out with the spleen and jaundice, and every object he pass’d by was discoloured or distorted. He wrote an account of them, but ’twas nothing but the account of his miserable feelings.”

USAGE:
“And a couple of smellfungus from the Official Paper … carped that Issel chose to jump when the schedule reached its toughest stretch.”
Paige Woody; Issel is the Wrong Scapegoat in Nuggets’ Mess; Denver Post; Feb 13, 1995.
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