SNOLLYGOSTER -- n. Slang
One, especially a politician, who is guided by personal advantage rather than by consistent, respectable principles.
*Perhaps alteration of snallygaster, a mythical beast said to prey on poultry and children, perhaps from Pennsylvania Dutch schnelle geeschter : Middle High German snl, quick (from Old High German) + Middle High German geist, spirit (from Old High German).*
That's a new one for me too. I love it as much as Frederick Lewis Allen's
phrase "blatherskite of a pen pusher"!
JOBBERY -- (Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the practice of making private profit out of a public office; corruption or graft
HUSTINGS is the campaign trail.
A meeting at which candidates in an election address potential voters.
The campaigning associated with an election.
He then felt himself forced up some wooden steps by the persons from behind; and on removing his hat, found himself surrounded by his friends, in the very front of the left hand side of the hustings.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles
Better got up gentlemen than the other cousins to ride over to polling-booths and hustings here and there, and show themselves on the side of England, it would be hard to find.
Bleak House by Dickens, Charles
That is a piece of clap-trap you have got ready for the hustings.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George
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