pecksniff

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What does pecksniff mean?

A very hypocritical person.

Where does pecksniff come from?

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

How to pronounce pecksniff

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