Snobbery

Definition: Snobbery

Snobbery

Noun

1. The trait of condescending to those of lower social status.

Date "snobbery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)

Synonym: Snobbery

Synonym: snobbishness (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Snobbery

English words defined with "snobbery": Snobbism. (references)

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Highway Snobbery (1936)
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Domain	Title
Books	Official Guide to Wine Snobbery (reference) Snobbery with Violence (reference) The Redneck Guide to Wine Snobbery (reference) The TV Wine Guy: Taking the Snobbery Out of Wine...One Bottle at a Time (reference) West End: Mismanagement and Snobbery (City Arts Series) (reference) (more book examples)
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"Snobbery" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Snobbery" is used about 124 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	124	28,785

Expression using "snobbery": social snobbery. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "snobbery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		snobizëm. (various references)

Arabic		‏تكبر (arrogance, be arrogant, look big, lordliness, pride, snootiness, snooty, superciliousness, swank, vanity), ‏تنفجية (snootiness), ‏سلوك النفاخين, ‏عجرفة (arrogance, haughtiness, insolence, lordliness, smugness, snootiness), ‏خيلاء (pride, vainglory, vainness, vanity). (various references)

Bulgarian		снобизъм (uppishness). (various references)

Czech		snobství, snobismus. (various references)

Farsi		افاده فروشی , افاده (Pride), رفتارازروی خودستاءی . (various references)

Finnish		hienostelu (showing off, snobbishness). (various references)

French		snobisme (snobbish, snobbishness). (various references)

German		Snobismus (snobbishness). (various references)

Greek		ακαταδεξία (magisterialness). (various references)

Hebrew		�"ת� שאות (lordliness, pridefulness, self praise, snootiness), ס� וביות (snobbishness). (various references)

Hungarian		sznobság (snobbishness), sznobizmus (snobbishness). (various references)

Italian		snobismo. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		気障 (affectation, conceit). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きざ (affectation, conceit, scratch, sitting up in bed, sitting up straight). (various references)

Manx		mooar-leaghaght (valuableness). (various references)

Pig Latin		obberysnay

Portuguese		pretensão (ambition, arrogation, aspiration, assumption, claim, desire, presumption, pretence, pretense, pretension, want, wish), esnobismo. (various references)

Romanian		snobism (snobbishness, snobbism). (various references)

Russian		снобизм (snobbishness). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		snobizam (snobishness). (various references)

Spanish		esnobismo (snootiness). (various references)

Swedish		snobberi (dandyism, foppery, frippery, swank). (various references)

Thai		พฤติกรรมหรือทัศนคติของคนหัวสูง. (various references)

Turkish		züppelik (dandyism, foppery, shoddy). (various references)

Ukrainian		снобізм, халтура (bungling, hackwork, potboiler, quickie, slapdash, trash). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự điệu bộ (affectation, snobbishness), tính chất trưởng giả học l� m sang (snobbishness), tính chất đua đòi sự m� u mè (snobbishness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Snobbery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nobbery, snobber, snoober, snubber, sobery. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "snobbery" (pronounced snÄ"berē)
4	-Ä" b er ē	robbery.
3	-b er ē	bribery, rubbery, shrubbery.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-b-e-n-o-r-s-y"
	-2 letters: boners, snobby, sobber.
	-3 letters: boner, bones, boney, bores, borne, brens, brose, brosy, byres, ebons, ebony, nobby, nosey, obeys, onery, oyers, robes, senor, snore, sober, syren, yores.
	-4 letters: bens, beys, bobs, bone, bony, bore, born, boys, bren, bros, byes, byre, ebbs, ebon, eons, erns, eros, nebs, nobs, noes, nose, nosy, obes, obey, ones, orbs.
	Words containing the letters "b-b-e-n-o-r-s-y"
	+2 letters: absorbency.
	+3 letters: boysenberry.
	+5 letters: bonnyclabbers, boysenberries.
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