tufthunter

I am by no means a tufthunter, my dear Akosh; I am not prejudiced, whatever people may say to the contrary—no!

He's a tufthunter—but he gets tufts....

And yet she was not a tufthunter, nor a toady.

A tufthunter is a snob, a parasite is a snob, the man who allows the manhood within him to be awed by a coronet is a snob.

Randal had hitherto supposed that this notorious tufthunter, this dandy capitalist, this money-lender, whose whole fortune had been wrung from the wants and follies of an aristocracy, was naturally a firm supporter of things as they are—how could things be better for men like Baron Levy?