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English
Etymology
From Dogberry, the name of a character in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (1600).
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Noun
Dogberry (plural Dogberries)
- A pompous, foolish or self-important official.
1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 333:It would be interesting to know how many village Dogberries there were like Thomas Law, the constable of Quendon, Essex, whose reaction in 1651 on being informed of a robbery was to call on the astrologer, William Hills, ‘with an intent to hear what he might say, so that he might make his search accordingly’.
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