E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
Skeggs.
Miss Carolina Wilhelmi’na Amelia Skeggs. A pretender to gentility who boasts of her aristocratic
connections, but is atrociously vulgar, and complains of being “all of a muck of sweat.” (Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield.)
