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snobbish, a.|ˈsnɒbɪʃ|
[f. snob n.1 3.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a snob.
1840Dickens Old C. Shop lvi, This form of inquiry he held to be of disrespectful and snobbish tendency. 1846Thackeray Snob Papers Wks. 1886 XXIV. 332, I can conceive nothing more dangerous, insolent—Snobbish, in a word—than such an opposition. 1854Illustr. Lond. News 8 July 7/2 The snobbish display of plush breeches. 1873Hamerton Intell. Life vii. iii. 242 You will not suspect me of a snobbish desire to pay compliments to royalty.
absol.1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs Pref., It is Beautiful to study even the Snobbish; to track Snobs through history.
Comb.1891E. Kinglake Australian 144 It is doubtless not pleasant for the snobbish-minded man..to remember an origin of the kind.
2. Having the character of a snob.
1849Saxe Poems, Proud Miss M‘Bride xv, Depend upon it, my snobbish friend, Your family thread you can't ascend. 1863W. Phillips Speeches xv. 325 Snobbish sons of fathers lately rich. 1885Spectator 30 May 714/2 Julian is..vain, cowardly, snobbish, and untrustworthy.
Hence ˈsnobbishly adv.
1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs iii, It encourages the commoner to be snobbishly mean. 1892Zangwill Bow Myst. iv. 51 One whom he seems snobbishly anxious to claim as a friend. |