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Date "PECKSNIFF" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1903. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Pecksniff A canting hypocrite, who speaks homilies of morality, does the most heartless things "as a duty to society," and forgives wrong-doing in nobody but himself. (Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deceiver | Noun: deceiver; (deceive; ); dissembler, hypocrite; sophist, Pharisee, Jesuit, Mawworm, Pecksniff, Joseph Surface, Tartufe, Janus; serpent, snake in the grass, Judas, wolf in sheep's clothing; jilt; shuffler, stool pigeon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "PECKSNIFF" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "PECKSNIFF" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pecksniff | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "PECKSNIFF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | Hipokrit (affected, double dealing, double faced, double-dealer, hypocrite, hypocritical, jesuitic, jesuitical, pharisaic, pharisaical, pharisee, phoney, phony). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | Лицемер. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ecksniffpay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | personagem hipócrita, tartufo, devoto fingido. (various references) | |
Russian | Елейный Лицемер. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | licemer (hypocrite, weasel). (various references) | |
Swedish | Hycklare (canter, dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự nói giả nhân giả nghĩa. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-f-f-i-k-n-p-s" | |
-3 letters: knifes, pekins, sicken. | |
-4 letters: cines, epics, fecks, fices, fiefs, fifes, fines, finks, kepis, kiefs, kines, knife, necks, neifs, nicks, pecks, peins, pekin, penis, picks, pikes, pines, pinks, sepic, since, skein, skiff, sneck, snick, sniff, snipe, speck, spice, spick, spiff, spike, spine. | |
-5 letters: ceps, cine, effs, epic, feck, fens, fice, fief, fife, fine, fink. | |
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