snobocracy

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noun

Snobs, collectively; snobbish behaviour or attitudes.

Scrabble 19

Meanings

nounsnobocracy (countable and uncountable, plural snobocracies)

plural snobocracies

  1. countableuncountableSnobs, collectively; snobbish behaviour or attitudes.

    You will not surely live to solicit ( as many a fine fellow , alas ! did but last year ) the votes , not even of the people , but merely of the snobocracy , on the ground of your having neither policy nor principles , nor even opinions , upon any matter in heaven or earth

    c. 1860, Charles Kingsley, My Winter-Garden
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    Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence. She devoured with more avidity than she had her food those pretentiously phrased chronicles of the snobocracy—[…]—distilling therefrom an acid envy that robbed her napoleon of all its flavor.

    1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter I (Anarchy), page 373, column 2

Origin

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