释义 |
snoˈbographer [f. as prec. + -ographer.] A writer on, a describer of, snobs. So snoˈbography, the description or delineation of snobs; snoˈbologist, snoˈbonomer, a student of, a specialist in, snobs.
1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxxv, Up that long avenue the *Snobographer walked in solitude. 1868Imperial Rev. Mar. 272, I may mention..that Thackeray, the great Snobographer, hated a Cad much more than he hated a Snob. 1966Punch 29 June 965/3 Auchincloss has surpassed himself in this magnificent comedy of manners... He is the post-Freud snobographer.
1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxxviii, In the Country *Snobography my poor friend Ponto has been held up almost exclusively for the public gaze. 1884Sat. Rev. 19 Jan. 76/1 The safer and wiser way in this infancy of the science of snobography is to refrain from the attempt at absolute aphorism.
1888E. A. Parry Lett. Dorothy Osborne Introd. 158 Both the circumstance and the doggerel should be very instructive to the *snobologist.
1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxiii, Some telescopic philosopher will arise one day, some great *Snobonomer [etc.]. |