Word: filius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...According to one version, it was the custom for sons of the British nobility to sign Oxford college registers fit. nob. - short for filius nobilis, son of a nobleman - and they were hence known as "nobs." Those who had no such claim but liked to associate with the aristocracy became known as quasi nobs, hence "snobs...