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Pangloss

(Dr.). A learned pedant, very poor and very conceited, pluming himself on the titles of LL.D. and A.SS. (Greek, “All-tongue.”) (Colman: Heir-at-Law.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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