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Blimber
(Miss). A blue-stocking, who knows the dead languages,
and wears learned spectacles. She is the daughter of Dr. Blimber, a
fossil school-master of the high and dry grammar type (Dickens: Dombey and Son.)
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Blimber from Infoplease:
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