Oxbridgy

comparative more Oxbridgy · superlative most Oxbridgy

1. alternativeAlternative form of Oxbridgey.

   Which is probably a snobby Oxbridgy thing – they tend to get most of their people into City jobs.

   1997, Lee Harvey, Sue Moon, Vicki Geall, Graduates’ Work: Organisational Change and Students’ Attributes, Centre for Research into Quality, →ISBN

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   At first sight, the explanation may be sought in the inbred, Oxbridgy atmosphere of the English literary circle.

   1971, The Literary Criterion, volume 10, Popular Prakashan, page 108

   Her parents had not understood about university but then, in a way, Emily too had always felt uncomfortable with the more Oxbridgy elements of UCL (the classics students who sat in the quad pretending they were at Balliol).

   2007, Domenica De Rosa, The Secret of Villa Serena, Headline Review, →ISBN, page 116

   The Atheneum crowd, very Oxbridgy and, for all their liberal airs, quite nose-up when it came to rube Irish geniuses in brown suits with the look of a pig farmer’s right-hand man, had yet to notice me and perhaps never would.

   2015, Stephen Hunter, “Jeb’s Memoir”, in I, Ripper, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 79