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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Skeggs

Miss Carolina Wilhelmina Amelia Skeggs. A pretender to gentility who boasts of her aristocratic connections, but is atrociously vulgar, and complains of being “all of a muck of sweat.” (Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield.)

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