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 Podgers.Podsnap’pery. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Podsnap.
 
A type of the heavy gentry, lumbering and straight-backed as Elizabethan furniture. (Dickens: Our Mutual Friend.)   1
 


 Podgers.Podsnap’pery. 

 
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