I hadn't come across the word 'snollygoster', so I looked it up:
snol·ly·gos·ter n. Slang. One, especially a politician, who is guided by personal advantage rather than by consistent, respectable principles.
[Perhaps alteration of snallygaster, a mythical beast said to prey on poultry and children]
This potential derivation gives extra meaning to Macduff's outcry on learning of the death of his family:
"What, all my pretty chickens, and their dam, At one fell swoop?"
Macbeth, it could be said, was doubly a snallygaster.
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