1254"Sciolist" - from J-Law
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Mar. 4, 2003
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 16:50:10 -0800 (PST)
From: J-Law
Subject: One last thing about McB
To: me
I forgot to tell you that she played the locking the dogs up thing
like they "preferred to be in the bedroom," and she just closed the
door to keep them from "dashing into the street when she left the
house."
Whatever, dude.
Le mot du jour: Sciolist: someone who babbles pretentiously about
something, but they actually don't know shit.
That fits our respective betes noirs rather well, don't you think?
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dictionary.com:
Sciolist
\Sci"o*list\, n. [L. sciolus. See Sciolous.] One who knows many
things superficially; a pretender to science; a smatterer.
These passages in that book were enough to humble the presumption of
our modern sciolists, if their pride were not as great as their
ignorance. --Sir W. Temple.
A master were lauded and sciolists shent. --R. Browning.