Pangloss (Dr.)

A learned pedant, very poor and very conceited, pluming himself on the titles of LL.D. and A.SS. (Greek, “All-tongue.”) (Colman: Heir-at-Law.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.