Podsnapperyn.
/pɒdˈsnap(ə)ri/, U.S. /pɑdˈsnæp(ə)ri/ The characteristic behaviour or attitudes of Dickens's Mr Podsnap; insular complacency and blinkered self-satisfaction.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > contentment or satisfaction > self-satisfaction > [noun]
complacencec1430
self-contentment1592
self-complacence1601
self-content1602
self-satisfaction1605
self-pleasing1610
self-complacency1616
self-contentedness1642
complacency1650
self-complaisance1675
Podsnappery1864
smugness1883
the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > narrow-mindedness > insularity, provincialism > [noun]
insularity1755
provinciality1769
localism1798
provincialism1819
parish pump1840
parochialism1847
vestrydom1860
vestryism1861
Podsnappery1864
parochialness1866
vestryhood1871
insularism1880
peninsularity1882
parochiality1887
parish pumpery1902
localitis1943
bourgeois-mindedness1955
1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xi. 98 These may be said to have been the articles of a faith and school which the present chapter takes the liberty of calling, after its representative man, Podsnappery.
1880 Daily Tel. 1 Dec. 5/2 It is all very well to sneer at ‘Chauvinism’ and ‘Podsnappery’ but the claim of British children to supremacy among their kind must be resolutely upheld.
1911 J. C. Walters Phases of Dickens iv. 214 Podsnappery stands for the perpetuation of all that is wrong, slow, old-fashioned, and unprogressive.
1929 A. Huxley Do what you Will 31 Those detestable Puritans to whom we owe..Grundyism and Podsnappery.
1992 Independent 24 Feb. 23/3 Masochists may get their kicks from national self-denigration, but for the rest of us there is neither much fun nor much enlightenment in such bouts of inverted Podsnappery.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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