PODSNAP

PRONUNCIATION: (POD-snap)

MEANING: noun: A smug, self-satisfied person.

ETYMOLOGY: After John Podsnap, a character in Charles Dickens’ novel Our Mutual Friend (1865). Earliest documented use: 1865.

NOTES: Podsnap is a pompous, jingoistic character, proudly immune to nuance. As Dickens describes him, “Mr Podsnap was well-to-do, and stood very high in Mr Podsnap’s opinion. ... Mr Podsnap’s world was not a very large world, morally; no, nor even geographically: seeing that although his business was sustained upon commerce with other countries, he considered other countries, with that important reservation, a mistake.”
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POD SNAG - the okra has clogged the garbage disposal

POP SNAP - an early version of the slogan for Rice Krispies cereal

HOD SNAP - what happpens when you try to carry too many bricks at once