Re: Insult (jara: Weekly Vocab 8)

Tristan McLeay wrote at 2003-05-26 07:55:29 (+1000)
 > John Cowan wrote:
 >
 > >And then there's Jubal Harshaw, who tells a politician that he
 > >(Harshaw) "is a senior philosophunculist on active duty", and
 > >inquires indignantly, "Haven't you studied amphigory?"
 > >
 > >
 > Hmm... does 'philosophunculist' mean anything?
 >

I can't find it in a dictionary, but google returns a number of sites
with the definition "One who pretends to know more than they do to
impress others".