snobocracy (countable and uncountable, plural snobocracies)
Snobs, collectively; snobbish behaviour or attitudes.
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 savour.
Source: Wiktionary
Snob*oc"ra*cy, n. Etym: [Snob + -cracy, as in aristocracy, mobocracy.]
Definition: Snobs, collectively. [Hybrid & Recent] C. Kingsley.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
20 December 2024
(verb) commit fraud and steal from one’s employer; “We found out that she had been fiddling for years”
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