Although there was a 19th-century newspaper editor who defined it rather better when he said, "A snollygoster is a fellow who seeks office regardless of party, platform or principle, and who, when he wins, gets there by the sheer force of monumental talknophical assumnancy."
Iako, u 19. stoljeću živio je novinski urednik koji je definirao to bolje kada je rekao, „snollygoster je čovjek koji traži ured, bez obzira na stranku, podij ili princip, i koji, kad pobijedi, dolazi ondje strmoglavom silom monumentalnog verbalnog rasipanja nečuvenih ideja“.