podsnappery

\(ˈ)päd|snap(ə)rē\ noun (-es)

Usage: sometimes capitalized

Etymology: Mr. Podsnap, complacent Philistine in Our Mutual Friend (1864-5), by Charles Dickens died 1870 English novelist + English -ery

: an attitude toward life marked by complacency and a refusal to recognize unpleasant facts

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Podsnappery /pod-snapˈər-i/

noun

British Philistinism as exemplified in Mr Podsnap in Dickens's novel Our Mutual Friend (1865)