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Puppyism

Puppyism \Pup"py*ism\, n. Extreme meanness, affectation, conceit, or impudence.
--A. Chalmers.

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puppyism

n. 1 Extreme meanness, affectation, conceit, or impudence. 2 Youthful folly.

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Marianne was spared from the troublesome feelings of contempt and resentment, on this impertinent examination of their features, and on the puppyism of his manner in deciding on all the different horrors of the different toothpick-cases presented to his inspection, by remaining unconscious of it all.