snobberyn.
/ˈsnɒbəri/ 1. The class of snobs.
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society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [noun] > parvenu or imitator of upper classes > collectively
snobbery1833
snobdom1846
snobocracy1853
shoddy1862
shoddydom1868
1833 Lincoln Herald 15 Jan. 3/6 In ‘talking conversation’ with some of the Snobbery of Brummagem.
1887 Twin 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.
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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [noun]
finesse1549
garishness1598
gaudiness1601
finery1656
glare1706
snobbery1843
flauntiness1854
flashiness1855
shoddyism1865
loudness1881
obtrusiveness1881
floridity1883
flashness1885
orchidacity1897
pizzazz1937
neon1958
snazziness1961
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [noun] > parvenu or imitator of upper classes > quality or condition of
snobbery1843
snobbism1845
snobbishness1846
snobbiness1851
parvenuism1852
parvenudom1872
snobisme1913
1843 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 53 232 Snobbery, like murder, will out; and, if you do not happen to be a gentleman born [etc.].
1853 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life I. 315 They are two capital people, without any snobbery.
1891 Speaker 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.
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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [noun] > instance or example of
painted sheath1542
puff1567
wonderclout1570
snobbery1866
plush horse1891
tartine1907
dog's dinner1996
society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [noun] > parvenu or imitator of upper classes > instance of
snobbery1866
snobbism1884
snobisme1913
1866 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 632 Arms sometimes indispensable in mixed societies against the pushing snobberies of vulgar wealth.
1880 Cope'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.
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the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun] > snobbery
snobbism1845
snobbishness1846
snobbiness1851
snobbery1903
snobisme1913
elitism1956
1903 G. B. Shaw Man & Superman ii. 50 That tone of intellectual snobbery.
1937 Ld. 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.
1977 Times 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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