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dago dazzler

dago dazzler noun: an impressive-looking document used to identify the bearer as being affiliated with some official institution, typically a university or college, with the purpose of impressing low-level bureaucrats, usually of a foreign nation.

Noun

dago dazzler (plural dago dazzlers)

  1. (ethnic, offensive, slang, slur) An impressive-looking document used to identify the bearer as being affiliated with some official institution, typically a university or college, with the purpose of impressing low-level bureaucrats, usually of a foreign nation.
    • There's places where a dago-dazzler doesn't cut much ice, but it was dollars to doughnuts that the Sultan'd have a kindly feeling for it when I had Mungo explain that it was from the President of the U. S. A., telling him to treat his Uncle Phineas good and white, and he'd do the same by him some...1917, Walter Alleyne Ireland, Beating 'em to it: Or, The Sultan and the Sausages
    • I also took off well supplied with letters of introduction to medieval scholars and with what were then called "dago dazzlers,” formal letters to which the Harvard seal was affixed, […]2017, George Caspar Homans, Coming to My Senses: The Autobiography of a Sociologist, page 170

Forms of dago dazzler

pluraldago dazzlers

Questions about dago dazzler

What does dago dazzler mean?
Dago dazzler means an impressive-looking document used to identify the bearer as being affiliated with some official institution, typically a university or college, with the purpose of impressing low-level bureaucrats, usually of a foreign nation.
What part of speech is dago dazzler?
Dago dazzler is a noun.
What is the plural of dago dazzler?
The plural of dago dazzler is dago dazzlers.

Words near dago dazzler in the dictionary

  1. dagnasty
  2. DAGNs
  3. dago
  4. dago bomb
  5. dago bombs
  6. dago dazzler
  7. dago dazzlers
  8. dago red
  9. dago reds
  10. dagoba
  11. dagobah

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