The Snollys And The Gosters

I was digging through an old shoebox of S letters today and came across the word: snollygoster.

Heck of it is, I don't remember whether it is an insult of the highest caliber vilifying the culprit who schlepped my jello salad while I demonstrated my famous boarding-house reach swiping the sprouts from under Aunt Milly's schnozzle or whether it was a soupy endearment: "Oh, you adorable snollygoster, you."

Even my fifty-six-pound, unabridged, has-every-word-in-the-universe dictionary doesn't know the meaning of snollygoster.

Has a nice ring to it though, doesn't it ?!
The Snollys and the Gosters © 2005 Chaeli Lee Sullivan