DOGBERRY

PRONUNCIATION: (DOG-ber-ee, -buh-ree)

MEANING: noun: A pompous, incompetent, self-important official.

ETYMOLOGY: After Dogberry, a constable in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, in which he goes about his blundering ways while mouthing malapropisms. Earliest documented use: 1801.

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[Nothing at all like Dilbert's Dogbert...]

DOGBURRY - covered with prickles, like the inspiration for Velcro