Word: peccant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Peccant Peck Sir: Apropos of the Catholic "venial kiss" discussion | Oct. 8]: one imagines countless exchanges like this on Irish lanes: "Gi! Said a me lad a to a venial lass, kiss." "To Hell wi' ye, son. I kiss mortal, like this...
Here's Your Muffler. The impeccable Jeeves and the peccant Bertie Wooster, P.G.'s most famous characters, do not figure in these stories. Instead, there is the terrible Lord Bodsham, "The Curse of the Eastern Counties," and his dimwit daughter, Mavis Peasmarch. There is Freddie Widgeon, "a pretty clear-thinking chap [who] realized that you can't go strewing babies all over the place"; and Horace Bewstridge, an indomitable golfer who "clasped [Vera Witherby] to his bosom, using the interlocking grip...