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Brewer has: the coarse rye-bread ("brown George") eaten in Germany, especially in Westphalia. Thackeray applied the term as a satirical nickname to petty German princelings (His Transparency, the Duke of Pumpernickel") …
Shorter Oxford refers to its earlier sense of 'lout' or 'stinker'.
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Wordsmith 04/24/00 12:00 PM Re: Etymologies
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