Podsnappery

English Etymology From en Podsnap ery, referring to a character Mr. Podsnap in Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend (1864–1865), in which this word was also coined. Podsnap was “conscious that he set a brilliant social example in being particularly well satisfied with most things, and, above all other things, with himself”. Noun - en derogatory Smug self-satisfaction and a lack of interest in the affairs of others. en The Socialist Register 1965 The Peculiarities of the English w:E. P. Thompson https://www.marxists.org/archive/thompson-ep/1965/english.htm No doubt in particular contexts certain of these judgments might be sustained. But what is evident, wherever such judgments obtrude, is the loosening of emotional control and the displacement of analysis by commination. There is, about them, the air of an inverted Podsnappery. https://web.archive.org/web/20261009103505/https://www.marxists.org/archive/thompson-ep/1965/english.htm 9 October 2026 en eponyms terms derived from Dickensian works