oxbridgy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of Oxbridgey.
Example Sentences
- "At first sight, the explanation may be sought in the inbred, Oxbridgy atmosphere of the English literary circle."
- "Which is probably a snobby Oxbridgy thing – they tend to get most of their people into City jobs."
- "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)."
- "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."
Inflected Forms
more Oxbridgy (comparative)
most Oxbridgy (superlative)