"Where Bacchus ruleth all that's done,
And Venus all that's said."
SMUTTY. Possessing the qualities of obscene conversation. Applied
also to the person who uses such conversation.
SNOB. In the English universities, a townsman, as opposed to a
student; or a blackguard, as opposed to a gentleman; a loafer
generally.--_Bristed_.
They charged the _Snobs_ against their will,
And shouted clear and lustily.
_Gradus ad Cantab_, p. 69.
Used in the same sense at some American colleges.
2. A mean or vulgar person; particularly, one who apes 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.