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Snopes|ˈsnəʊps|
Also snopes; erron. pl. Snopes.
The family name of a series of vicious characters in the fiction of William Faulkner (first described in Sartoris, 1929), used as a type of an unscrupulous or heartless person.
1962Guardian 3 Oct. 1/6 There are plenty of snopes waiting to take over and act as though Mr Meredith has never been. 1970Times 10 Apr. 10 In the heated circumstances of the present Mr. Nixon would be joining the yahoos and the snopes. 1977Time 17 Oct. 48/2 His brother, the Snopes in the woodpile, satirizes the theme by assuming the very worst of the American people and braying at them. |