Oxbridgy

English

Adjective

Oxbridgy (comparative more Oxbridgy, superlative most Oxbridgy)

1. Alternative form of Oxbridgey.
   • 1971, The Literary Criterion, volume 10, Popular Prakashan, page 108:

     At first sight, the explanation may be sought in the inbred, Oxbridgy atmosphere of the English literary circle.

   • 1997, Lee Harvey, Sue Moon, Vicki Geall, Graduates’ Work: Organisational Change and Students’ Attributes, Centre for Research into Quality, →ISBN:

     Which is probably a snobby Oxbridgy thing – they tend to get most of their people into City jobs.

   • 2007, Domenica De Rosa, The Secret of Villa Serena, Headline Review, →ISBN, page 116:

     Her parents had not understood about university but then, in a way, Emily too had always felt uncomfortable with the more Oxbridgy elements of UCL (the classics students who sat in the quad pretending they were at Balliol).

   • 2015, Stephen Hunter, “Jeb’s Memoir”, in I, Ripper, Pocket Books, →ISBN, page 79:

     The Atheneum crowd, very Oxbridgy and, for all their liberal airs, quite nose-up when it came to rube Irish geniuses in brown suits with the look of a pig farmer’s right-hand man, had yet to notice me and perhaps never would.