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Word: smoucher (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Class Differences. Whitman wrote, "I see an aristocrat/ I see a smoucher grabbing the good dishes exclusively to himself and grinning at the starvation of others as if it were funny,/ I gaze on the greedy hog." By the time of the Civil War, the poorest half of Americans owned just 1% of all assets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BAD OLD DAYS | 5/8/1995 | See Source »

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