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French
Etymology
From snober (“to snub”) + -age.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /snɔ.baʒ/
Noun
snobage m (plural snobages)
- (colloquial, familiar) snobbery, snobbishness; snubbing, the act of snubbing someone
1985, Michel Morineau, Pour une histoire économique vraie, Presses Universitaires de Lille, page 465:La progression de l’histoire économique serait sans doute plus rapide, d’ailleurs, si la discussion sur les critères, les méthodes et la problématique revêtait un caractère public et clairement dialectique au lieu de reposer sur des insinuations, des refus boudeurs ou, tout simplement, un snobage élitiste.- The progress of economic history would no doubt be more rapid, moreover, if the discussion of criteria, methods and problematics took on a public and clearly dialectical character instead of being based on insinuations, sulky refusals or, simply, an elitist snobbishness.
2004, Philippe Gallo, Irène Cerretti, La ville sans nom, Éditions Le Manuscrit, page 256:La presse parisienne, qui la veille en faisait des gorges chaudes, déduisit de ce "snobage" qu’au fond ce qu’avait à dire ce jeune avocat inconnu en France ne devait pas valoir le déplacement, […] .- The Parisian press, which had the day before made light of things, deduced from this "snobbery" that basically, what this young lawyer unknown in France had to say, wouldn't be worth the trip.
2013, Adrien Sarrault, Buisson d'Amarante, Daphnis et Chloé, page 48:Moi, j’assistais à tout cela en parfait spectateur, car la moindre entame de discussion avec une fille se terminait immanquablement et très rapidement par un snobage, un camouflet, une éconduite, en termes plus crus un vent, une veste ou un râteau.- Me, I attended all this as a perfect spectator, because the slightest attempt at conversation with a girl inevitably and very quickly ended in a snub, a humiliation, a dismissal, in cruder terms a blowoff, a put-down, or a kick to the curb.
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