snobocracy

snobocracy

English

Etymology

snob +‎ -cracy

Noun

snobocracy (countable and uncountable, plural snobocracies)

1. Snobs, collectively; snobbish behaviour or attitudes.
   • c. 1860, Charles Kingsley, My Winter-Garden

     You will not surely live to solicit ( as many a fine fellow , alas ! did but last year ) the votes , not even of the people , but merely of the snobocracy , on the ground of your having neither policy nor principles , nor even opinions , upon any matter in heaven or earth

   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter I, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:

     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.