English

Noun

snobocracy ‎(plural snobocracies)

1. Snobs, collectively; snobbish behaviour or attitudes.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Charles Kingsley to this entry?)

   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, Nobody, chapter I:

     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.