pantopragmatic
Sep. 11th, 2007 07:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordpantopragmatic - adj., meddling in everybody's business.
Again, not a colorful 19th century Americanism -- it seems to have been coined by Thomas Love Peacock (from Greek roots) for his 1860 novel Gryll Grange, which has a Pantopragmatic Society. So a colorful 19th century Britishism.
---L.
Again, not a colorful 19th century Americanism -- it seems to have been coined by Thomas Love Peacock (from Greek roots) for his 1860 novel Gryll Grange, which has a Pantopragmatic Society. So a colorful 19th century Britishism.
---L.
