Definition of "chawbacon" [chawbacon]

• A person who is not intelligent or interested in culture. (noun)

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• "“The Captain has a hearty contempt for his father, I can see, and calls him an old put, an old snob, an old chawbacon, and numberless other pretty names."
• "I once knew a chawbacon who came to town and was barked at by a street-dog."
• ""That it is so, take," said he, "any young boy of the present time, who hath only studied two years: if he have not a better judgment, a better discourse, and that exprest in better terms, than your son, with a completer carriage and civility to all manner of persons, account me forever a chawbacon of La Brène.""