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Next public mention of the word, according to Century
Dictionary and Encyclopaedia (1909 Supplement) was in the August
17, 1896, issue of "The Georgia Cracker" published in Atlanta,
Georgia, and was as follows:
"A man who is ambitious for office regardless
of party, platform, or principles, and if he gets
there at all he does so by monumental talk."
Other current definitions are few. Snollygoster does
not occur in Webster's Unabridged. The American Dialect Dictionary
by Harold Wentworth, 1944 (Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York)
defines it: "A shyster", and refers to its use in Western Indiana
in 1912. Funk and Wagnalls New Standard Dictionary calls it a
local United States slang expression meaning "a pretentious, swag-
gering, prattling fellow". The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia,
supplement, defines it: "snollygoster
(origin obscure.) An
ambitious, boastful, talkative, unprincipled fellow. (Slang.)"
The Georgia Historical Society report ts that the word "is not in
any of our lists of Georgia provincialisms".
B.C.S.
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