[f. SNOB sb.1 3.]
1. The class of snobs.
1833. Lincoln Herald, 15 Jan., 3/6. In ‘talking conversation’ with some of the Snobbery of Brummagem.
1887. [C. Mackay], Twin Soul, II. xvi. 198. The admiration of all the ‘snobbery’ of London.
2. The character or quality of being a snob; snobbishness; vulgar ostentation.
1843. Blackw. Mag., LIII. 232. Snobbery, like murder, will out; and, if you do not happen to be a gentleman born [etc.].
1853. Geo. Eliot, in Cross, 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.
1866. Cornh. 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 running into debt, and in varying vulgarest snobberies with maddest absurdities.
