Wow. Who has ever used that word in normal conversation?

Snollygoster. Yes, I had to look it up in my Webster’s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary. It was Bill O’Reilly’s word of the day.

For those of you without an Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary, it means: “clever unscrupulous person.”

Thomas Jefferson was definitely not a snollygoster, but was a perspicacious, intelligent, polymath. You may have to look some of those words up!

One of Tom’s critics, however, was a snollygoster. James Callender spread vicious rumors about Jefferson, after he became President and refused to make Callender a member of his cabinet. Those rumors led to numerous slanderous stories about Jefferson’s mulatto mistress which are still taught about today as if they were true.

If you’d like to know more about this snollygoster, read “Founding Fathers—Uncommon Heroes” by Steven W. Allen. Or you may want to read “Man on a Mountain” by Natalie Bober.

Anyway, don’t be a snollygoster!!!