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ˈsnobby, a. [f. snob n.1 3.] Snobbish.
1846Mrs. Gore Eng. Char. (1852) 128 Thither comes the snobby gig, conveying red-faced individuals. 1858Ramsay Remin. Sc. Life & Char. 60 If we can't get in with the nobs,..we will never take up with any society that is decidedly snobby. 1888Temple Bar Aug. 539 Perhaps he was snobby enough to object to my earning money.
Add: Hence ˈsnobbily adv.
1856D. G. Rossetti Let. 18 Dec. (1965) I. 310 They have treated you snobbily enough there. 1987Times Lit. Suppl. 7 Aug. 846/1 The dolce vita set from Rome went on vacation there, drifting snobbily south to primitive Sicily. |