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snobbery|ˈsnɒbərɪ|
[f. snob n.1 3.]
1. The class of snobs.
1833Lincoln Herald 15 Jan. 3/6 In ‘talking conversation’ with some of the Snobbery of Brummagem. 1887Twin Soul II. xvi. 198 The admiration of all the ‘snobbery’ of London.
2. a. The character or quality of being a snob; snobbishness; vulgar ostentation.
1843Blackw. Mag. LIII. 232 Snobbery, like murder, will out; and, if you do not happen to be a gentleman born [etc.]. 1853Geo. Eliot in Cross Life I. 315 They are two capital people, without any snobbery. 1891Speaker 11 July 36/1 A type of snobbery which regards the established religion as a stepping-stone to respectability.
b. An instance of this; a snobbish trait.
1866Cornh. Mag. Nov. 632 Arms sometimes indispensable in mixed societies against the pushing snobberies of vulgar wealth. 1880Cope's Tobacco Plant. Oct. 536/1 Hence youth rivals with youth..in varying vulgarest snobberies with maddest absurdities.
c. With defining word: pretension to superior knowledge, taste, etc., in a particular sphere.
1903[see intellectual a. 1 b]. 1937Ld. Samuel Belief & Action iii. 30 It is a kind of cosmic snobbery to expect us to feel ‘humble’ in the presence of astronomical dimensions merely because they are big. 1977Times 15 Nov. (Italian Wine Suppl.) p. i/3 It is perhaps another instance of declining wine snobbery when people want to offer a wine that is good but cheap. |