snobography

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English

Etymology

From snob +‎ -o- +‎ -graphy.

Noun

snobography (uncountable)

(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.

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