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snobography en · NOUN

Etymology

From snob + -o- + -graphy.

Meanings

  1. (humorous, literary, uncountable) The description of snobs and snobbery.
    • The Colony restaurant does not suffer as intensely from Snobography as does a night club like El Morocco. 1962, Esquire - Part 1, page 99:
    • On this side of the Atlantic it may be recommended to a certain class by an undertaking that promises to be a veritable snobography. 1899, Munsey's Magazine - Volume 21, page 314:
    • But the safer and wiser way in this infancy of the science of snobography is to refrain from the attempt at absolute aphorism. 1884, Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art:
    • But the coincidence in two such artists is curious, nor is it the only foreshadowing of 'snobography' in the lady. 1850, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis:
    • Mr. Pirrup's self-lacerating autobiography was the superior snobography, the true inside story, not the omniscient narrator's satiric yet forgiving biography of Arthur Pendennis. 2002, Jerome Meckier, Dickens's Great Expectations: Misnar's Pavilion Versus Cinderella:
    • The reader will recall many a name eminent in the science of snobology and the art of snobography. 1903, William Searle Hicks, Quis Separabit?: