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To: Jim Robinson

Pecksniffian you say? Is that someone who sniffs Pecks? EGAD! I see he also picks nits and hammers ninnys.


36 posted on 07/09/2010 5:40:26 PM PDT by Enterprise (As a disaster unfolds, a putz putts.)
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To: Enterprise

If he hammers ninnys then he is still of some use, I suppose.


89 posted on 07/09/2010 6:42:13 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: Enterprise
Pecksniffian |pekˈsnifēən| adjective

affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
ORIGIN mid 19th cent.:
from Pecksniff, the name of a character in Dickens's
Martin Chuzzlewit, + -ian .

121 posted on 07/10/2010 6:47:02 AM PDT by itsahoot
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