Words / 1907 Nuttall Encyclopædia of General Knowledge / P / Pecksniff
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Pecksniff, a pronounced hypocrite in Dickens's “Martin Chuzzlewit,” and who lies and cants whether he is drunk or sober.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Pecksniff in Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable