英语词汇snopesism的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	snopesism
词源	Snopesism. A word coined by William Faulkner for the tak- ing over of the world by a grasping, greedy, money-grubbing middle class without any real culture, the word of course deriv- ing from the Snopes family depicted in his novels of fictitious Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. Wrote Faulkner in The Mansion (1959): “He had to be the sole one masculine feller . . . not just to recognize she had a soul still capable of being saved from what he called Snopesism . . .” See sartoris; wall street panic.
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