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WORD OF THE DAY
PETTIFOGGER
example sentence:
Charles Dickens was a complete pettifogger, an unctuous villain whose name became a byword for a falsely humble hypocrite.
did you know?
In its earliest uses, "pettifogger" was two separate words: "petti fogger." "Petti" was a variant spelling of "petty", a reasonable inclusion in a word for someone who is disreputable and small-minded.But why "fogger"? It may come rom "fugger" the name of a successful family of 15th -and 16th- century German merchants and financiers. Germanic variations of "fugger" were used for the wealthy and avaricious, as well as for hucksters. In english, a "petti fogger" was originally a small-time operator of a shady business. We're not sure why the word came to be applied specifically to lawyers, but it appears to have initially referred to lower-status attorneys, who argued the smaller less important cases.
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