Welcome to another weird and wonderful installment of Word Woman's Weekly Work-Out! Can you believe that it's almost August already? Back-to-school time is just around the corner, so why not warm up your neural pathways with the Word of the Week:
Snollygoster: [noun] a shrewd, unprincipled person, especially a politician. -- "Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang", Grant Barrett, Ed., Oxford University Press, New York, 2004.
Example: Frank complained that his ex-wife's lawyer was such a snollygoster that he was lucky to still have a pair of pants left to him by the time the trial was over.
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