Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Sampson

A dominie Sampson. A humble pedantic scholar, awkward, irascible, and very old-fashioned. The character occurs in Sir Walter Scott's Guy Mannering.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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