Pronounced: NAY-bob, noun
Notes: You may know this word; I was close, but the origin is interesting
Yesterday’s word
The word Chadband is “an oily, hypocritical person”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1800s
Background / Comments
Our word is another one that came from a book by Charles Dickens: Bleak House (1853). The character of Rev Mr Chadband was a greedy preacher in that book. That character must have impressed people, as his name quickly became a word for people who reminded them of the person. Sadly, I don’t think Dickens is read much anymore, and so many may not know the character, and are thus strangers to our word.
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