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Oxbridgy
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Adjective
en Oxbridgey.
en The Literary Criterion 10 w:Popular Prakashan 1971 108 At first sight, the explanation may be sought in the inbred, Oxbridgy atmosphere of the English literary circle.
en Lee Harvey; Sue Moon; Vicki Geall Graduates’ Work: Organisational Change and Students’ Attributes Centre for Research into Quality 1997 9781859201114 Which is probably a snobby Oxbridgy thing – they tend to get most of their people into City jobs.
en w:Domenica De Rosa The Secret of Villa Serena Headline Review 2007 116 978 0 7553 4490 1 Her parents had not understood about university but then, in a way, Emily too had always felt uncomfortable with the more Oxbridgy elements of UCL (the classics students who sat in the quad pretending they were at Balliol).
en w:Stephen Hunter Jeb’s Memoir w:I, Ripper w:Pocket Books 2015 79 978-1-4767-6486-3 The Atheneum crowd, very Oxbridgy and, for all their liberal airs, quite nose-up when it came to rube Irish geniuses in brown suits with the look of a pig farmer’s right-hand man, had yet to notice me and perhaps never would.