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snobocracy

snobocracy noun: snobs, collectively; snobbish behaviour or attitudes.

Noun

snobocracy (countable and uncountable, plural snobocracies)

  1. Snobs, 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 earthc. 1860, Charles Kingsley, My Winter-Garden
    • 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...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)...

Forms of snobocracy

pluralsnobocracies

Origin of snobocracy

From snob + -o- + -cracy.

Questions about snobocracy

What does snobocracy mean?
Snobocracy means snobs, collectively; snobbish behaviour or attitudes.
What part of speech is snobocracy?
Snobocracy is a noun.
What is the plural of snobocracy?
The plural of snobocracy is snobocracies.

Words near snobocracy in the dictionary

  1. snobism
  2. snobisms
  3. snobling
  4. snoblings
  5. snobocracies
  6. snobocracy
  7. snobocratic
  8. snobographer
  9. snobographers
  10. snobography
  11. SNOBOL

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