STIGGINS

PRONUNCIATION: (STI-ginz)

MEANING: noun: A pious impostor.

ETYMOLOGY: After Reverend Stiggins in Charles Dickens’ novel The Pickwick Papers (serialized 1833-36). Earliest documented use: 1916.

NOTES: Reverend Stiggins is a hypocritical deputy shepherd of a Temperance Association. His red nose betrays his true feelings about temperance.
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ST. 'IGGINS - George Bernard Shaw's noted elocution professor has been canonized

STAG GINS - a clear drink, distilled and redistilled fermented juniper berries, made for by and for men only

STOGGINS - 'ung by the fireplace on Gristmas Eve by males who hope to get a gift from Santa. If they were bad they receive a wadded-up plant leaf; if they were good, though, they get an old cigar.