peachalorum
n.— «If you don’t know how to get away with this Job, you ought not to go against it. You are what Charles Francis Adams would call a Peachalorum.» —“Modern Fables” by George Ade Washington Post Dec. 2, 1900. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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