gentility.
--_Halliwell_.

Used both in England and the United States, "and recently," says
Webster, "introduced into books as a term of derision."

SNOBBESS. In the English universities, a female _snob_.

Effeminacies like these, induced, no doubt, by the flattering
admiration of the fair _snobbesses_.--_Alma Mater_, Vol. II. p.
116.

SNOBBISH. Belonging to or resembling a _snob_.

SNOBBY. Low; vulgar; resembling or pertaining to a _snob_.

SNUB. To reprimand; check; rebuke. Used among students, more
frequently than by any other class of persons.

SOPH. In the University of Cambridge, England, an abbreviation of
SOPHISTER.--_Webster_.

On this word, Crabb, in his _Technological Dictionary_, says: "A
certain distinction or title which undergraduates in the
University at Oxford assume, previous to their examination for a
degree. It took its rise in the exercises which students formerly
had to go through, but which are now out of use."

Three College _Sophs_, and three pert Templars came,
The same their talents, and their tastes the same.
_Pope's Dunciad_, B. II. v. 389, 390.

2. In the American colleges, an abbreviation of Sophomore.

_Sophs_ wha ha' in Commons fed!
_Sophs_ wha ha' in Commons bled!
_Sophs_ wha ne'er from Commons fled!
Puddings, steaks, or wines!
_Rebelliad_, p. 52.

The _Sophs_ did nothing all the first fortnight but torment the
Fresh, as they call us.--_Harvardiana_, Vol. III. p. 76.

The _Sophs_ were victorious at every point.--_Yale Banger_, Nov.
10, 1846.

My Chum, a _Soph_, says he committed himself too soon.--_The
Dartmouth_, Vol. IV. p. 118.

SOPHIC. A contraction of sophomoric.

So then the _Sophic_ army
Came on in warlike glee.
_The Battle of the Ball_, 1853.

SOPHIMORE. The old manner of spelling what is now known as
SOPHOMORE.

The President may give Leave for the _Sophimores_ to take out some
particular Books.--_Laws Yale Coll._, 1774, p. 23.

His favorite researches, however, are discernible in his
observations on a comet, which appeared in the beginning of his
_Sophimore_ year.--_Holmes's Life of Ezra Stiles_, p. 13.

I aver thou hast never been a corporal in the militia, or a
_sophimore_ at college.--_The Algerine Captive_, Walpole, 1797,
Vol. I. p. 68.

SOPHISH GOWN. Among certain gownsmen, a gown that bears the marks
of much service; "a thing of shreds and patches."--_Gradus ad
Cantab._

SOPHIST. A nam