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From the "Party-Giving Snobs" chapter of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 collection of satire, ''The Book of Snobs''  
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Non-English singer from the "Party-Giving Snobs" chapter of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 collection of satire, ''[https://archive.org/details/bookofsnobs00thac/page/66 The Book of Snobs]''.
  
 
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To hear this Cacafogo and Thumpenstrumpff, a hundred people are gathered together-
 
To hear this Cacafogo and Thumpenstrumpff, a hundred people are gathered together-
 
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"Cacafogo" from Spanish caca-fuego (fire pooper), was a name given to comic braggart characters in plays in the 1600 and 1700s.
  
 
==External Links==
 
==External Links==
 
*https://archive.org/details/booksnobs03thacgoog/page/n74
 
*https://archive.org/details/booksnobs03thacgoog/page/n74
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*https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cacafuego
  
 
==See also==
 
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*[[Thumpenstrumpff]]
 
*[[Thumpenstrumpff]]
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Latest revision as of 07:01, 25 September 2019

Non-English singer from the "Party-Giving Snobs" chapter of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 collection of satire, The Book of Snobs.

--a scrubby-looking, yellow-faced foreigner, with cleaned gloves, is warbling inaudibly in a corner, to the accompaniment of another. 'The Great Cacafogo,' Mrs. Botibol whispers, as she passes you by. 'A great creature, Thumpenstrumpff, is at the instrument--the Hetman Platoff's pianist, you know.'

To hear this Cacafogo and Thumpenstrumpff, a hundred people are gathered together-

"Cacafogo" from Spanish caca-fuego (fire pooper), was a name given to comic braggart characters in plays in the 1600 and 1700s.

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See also