anglo-pecksniffian

Updated: June 20, 2025

In these days when even Italy, the grey-haired cocotte, has become tainted with Anglo-Pecksniffian principles, there is nothing like a little time-honoured bestiality for restoring the circulation and putting things to rights generally. On ethical grounds alone as safety-valves such nocturnal feasts ought to be kept up in regions such as these, where the country-folk have not our "facilities."

Norman Douglas - Old Calabria