Pecksniffn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈpɛksnɪf/, U.S.

/ˈpɛkˌsnɪf/

Forms: also with lower-case initial.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Pecksniff.

Etymology: < the name of Mr Pecksniff, a hypocritical character in Charles Dickens's novel The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (1843–4).Perhaps compare English regional (Warwickshire) picksniff paltry, despicable, an insignificant or contemptible person, although this is first attested later (1896).

An unctuous hypocrite, a person who affects benevolence or pretends to have high moral principles; (also) a person who interferes officiously in the business of others. Frequently attributive. Also (occasionally) as adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [noun] > person

Pharisee1539

card gospeller1550

lip-gospeller?1556

saint1563

table-gospeller1570

separatist1620

Christera1650

canter1652

high-liver1715

cant1725

pietist1767

devil dodger1791

goody1816

creeping Jesusc1818

Mawworm1825

goody-two-shoes1843

Pecksniff1844

goody-goody1872

goody-good1879

lip-Christian1882

plaster saint1890

holy Willie1916

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > hypocrisy > [noun] > a hypocrite

hypocrite?c1225

dissimuler1386

whited (painted) sepulchre1388

dissimulator?a1513

dissembler1526

cafard1539

Tartuffe1688

hypocritic1818

Pecksniff1844

possum1846

slape-face1847

double-face1892

1844 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 7 373/2 A good many Pecksniff specimens of Gothic and Tudor of very recent date.

1846 Times 30 July 6/5 They look upon us, in morality, as a mere nation of Pecksniffs, who, having ruined our own sugar growers, want to pull down those of other countries.

1865 H. James in Nation (N.Y.) 21 Dec. 787/1 We had, perhaps, never known a Newman Noggs, nor a Pecksniff, nor a Micawber; but we had known persons of whom these figures were but the strictly logical consummation.

a1902 S. Butler Way of All Flesh (1903) ix. 38 Someone should do for morals what that old Pecksniff Bacon has obtained the credit of having done for science.

1913 W. Lewis Lett. (1963) 50 A new form of fish in the troubled waters of Art..the Pecksniff-shark, a timid but voracious journalistic monster.

2002 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y) (Nexis) 8 June Of all the idiotic invasions of privacy, the right of a small bunch of pecksniffs to dictate where a person will live if he wants to keep his job is one of the worst.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Pecksniffv.

Brit.

/ˈpɛksnɪf/, U.S.

/ˈpɛkˌsnɪf/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: Pecksniff n.

Etymology: < Pecksniff n.

rare.

intransitive. To speak or act like a Pecksniff.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > manifest sanctimoniousness [verb (intransitive)]

to play the pope-holy1547

cant1678

Pecksniff1903

1903 G. B. Shaw Let. 26 Dec. (1972) II. 386 And that you are to come Pecksniffing at me in this fashion.

1997 Re: Flashman in alt.books.george-fraser (Usenet newsgroup) 11 Sept. We'll have none of your self-appointed guardians of the public morals Pecksniffing about here, young feller-me-lad.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pecksniff
释义	Pecksniffn.adj. Brit. /ˈpɛksnɪf/, U.S. /ˈpɛkˌsnɪf/ Forms: also with lower-case initial. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Pecksniff. Etymology: < the name of Mr Pecksniff, a hypocritical character in Charles Dickens's novel The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit (1843–4).Perhaps compare English regional (Warwickshire) picksniff paltry, despicable, an insignificant or contemptible person, although this is first attested later (1896). An unctuous hypocrite, a person who affects benevolence or pretends to have high moral principles; (also) a person who interferes officiously in the business of others. Frequently attributive. Also (occasionally) as adj. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [noun] > person Pharisee1539 card gospeller1550 lip-gospeller?1556 saint1563 table-gospeller1570 separatist1620 Christera1650 canter1652 high-liver1715 cant1725 pietist1767 devil dodger1791 goody1816 creeping Jesusc1818 Mawworm1825 goody-two-shoes1843 Pecksniff1844 goody-goody1872 goody-good1879 lip-Christian1882 plaster saint1890 holy Willie1916 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > hypocrisy > [noun] > a hypocrite hypocrite?c1225 dissimuler1386 whited (painted) sepulchre1388 dissimulator?a1513 dissembler1526 cafard1539 Tartuffe1688 hypocritic1818 Pecksniff1844 possum1846 slape-face1847 double-face1892 1844 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 7 373/2 A good many Pecksniff specimens of Gothic and Tudor of very recent date. 1846 Times 30 July 6/5 They look upon us, in morality, as a mere nation of Pecksniffs, who, having ruined our own sugar growers, want to pull down those of other countries. 1865 H. James in Nation (N.Y.) 21 Dec. 787/1 We had, perhaps, never known a Newman Noggs, nor a Pecksniff, nor a Micawber; but we had known persons of whom these figures were but the strictly logical consummation. a1902 S. Butler Way of All Flesh (1903) ix. 38 Someone should do for morals what that old Pecksniff Bacon has obtained the credit of having done for science. 1913 W. Lewis Lett. (1963) 50 A new form of fish in the troubled waters of Art..the Pecksniff-shark, a timid but voracious journalistic monster. 2002 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y) (Nexis) 8 June Of all the idiotic invasions of privacy, the right of a small bunch of pecksniffs to dictate where a person will live if he wants to keep his job is one of the worst. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Pecksniffv. Brit. /ˈpɛksnɪf/, U.S. /ˈpɛkˌsnɪf/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: Pecksniff n. Etymology: < Pecksniff n. rare. intransitive. To speak or act like a Pecksniff. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > manifest sanctimoniousness [verb (intransitive)] to play the pope-holy1547 cant1678 Pecksniff1903 1903 G. B. Shaw Let. 26 Dec. (1972) II. 386 And that you are to come Pecksniffing at me in this fashion. 1997 Re: Flashman in alt.books.george-fraser (Usenet newsgroup) 11 Sept. We'll have none of your self-appointed guardians of the public morals Pecksniffing about here, young feller-me-lad. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1844v.1903
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