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Article: Are you a dire doryphore or just a snollygoster?; LANGUAGE: New Oxford Dictionary of Weird and Wonderful Words.(News)

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Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
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October 25, 2001
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Byline: TOM WHITEHEAD

ARE you a deipnosophist when it comes to dinner parties or do you wind everyone up because you are nothing more than a doryphore?

Are your friends all snollygosters and do you call the doctor when you have otalgia? Confused?

Well you might accuse someone using such language of being a blatherskite, a person who ...

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