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Simon Legree
Si·mon Le·gree [ smən lə gr ] (plural Si·mon Le·grees)


noun 
Definition:
 
U.S. disciplinarian: a hard taskmaster who insists on discipline
[After the brutal owner of enslaved people in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)]
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