snobling
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
snobling (plural snoblings)
- (humorous, dated) A little snob.
- 1846 February 28 – 1847 February 27, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, “On Clerical Snobs and Snobbishness”, in The Book of Snobs, London: Punch Office, […], published 1848, →OCLC, page 47:
- In either of which cases, you see, dear Snobling, that though the parson would not have been authorised, yet he might have been excused for interfering.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “snobling”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)