snobography

English

Etymology

snob +‎ -o- +‎ -graphy

Noun

snobography (uncountable)

1. (humorous, literary) The description of snobs and snobbery.
   • 1850, William Makepeace Thackeray, The History of Pendennis:

     But the coincidence in two such artists is curious, nor is it the only foreshadowing of 'snobography' in the lady.

   • 1884, Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art:

     But the safer and wiser way in this infancy of the science of snobography is to refrain from the attempt at absolute aphorism.

   • 1899, Munsey's Magazine - Volume 21, page 314:

     On this side of the Atlantic it may be recommended to a certain class by an undertaking that promises to be a veritable snobography.

   • 1903, William Searle Hicks, Quis Separabit?:

     The reader will recall many a name eminent in the science of snobology and the art of snobography.

   • 1962, Esquire - Part 1, page 99:

     The Colony restaurant does not suffer as intensely from Snobography as does a night club like El Morocco.

   • 2002, Jerome Meckier, Dickens's Great Expectations: Misnar's Pavilion Versus Cinderella:

     Mr. Pirrup's self-lacerating autobiography was the superior snobography, the true inside story, not the omniscient narrator's satiric yet forgiving biography of Arthur Pendennis.