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Pecksniff

Pecksniff noun: a very hypocritical person.

Noun

Pecksniff (plural Pecksniffs)

  1. A very hypocritical person.

Pecksniff meaning in Kannada

Pecksniff in Kannada

ಆಷಾಢಭೂತಿ, ನಯವಂಚಕ

Forms of Pecksniff

pluralPecksniffs

Origin of Pecksniff

Seth Pecksniff, a sanctimonious surveyor and architect “who has never designed or built anything”, appears in Charles Dickens's novel Martin Chuzzlewit (1844).

Words formed from Pecksniff

Questions about Pecksniff

What does Pecksniff mean?
Pecksniff means a very hypocritical person.
What is Pecksniff in Kannada?
Pecksniff in Kannada is ಆಷಾಢಭೂತಿ, ನಯವಂಚಕ. See Pecksniff meaning in Kannada.
What part of speech is Pecksniff?
Pecksniff is a noun.
What is the plural of Pecksniff?
The plural of Pecksniff is Pecksniffs.

Words near Pecksniff in the dictionary

  1. Pecknarm
  2. peckproof
  3. pecks
  4. pecks at
  5. pecksful
  6. Pecksniff
  7. Pecksniffery
  8. pecksniffian
  9. Pecksniffianism
  10. Pecksniffism
  11. Pecksniffs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Pecksniff (page history and authors); pecksniff (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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