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- noun Plural form of
pickthank .
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Examples
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Lord Dalgarno; “but then you will admit, my dear father, that it would be the risk of extremity for our friend to return into the presence, the duke being his enemy — better to leave it with me to take off the heat of the distemperature, with which some pickthanks have persuaded the duke to regard our friend.”
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Dalgarno; "but then you will admit, my dear father, that it would be the risk of extremity for our friend to return into the presence, the duke being his enemy -- better to leave it with me to take off the heat of the distemperature, with which some pickthanks have persuaded the duke to regard our friend."
The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801
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And thus might the pickthanks of blogs steal in upon the coattails of the Gas Giant and preen and posture in their imagined self-importance trumpeting his absurdities.
Sadly, No! 2009
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“No, madam,” said Ruthven gravely, “your ears do not deceive you — they deceived you when they were closed against the preachers of the evangele, and the honest advice of your faithful subjects; and when they were ever open to flattery of pickthanks and traitors, foreign cubiculars and domestic minions.
The Abbot 2008
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