Think the word you mean is obscurantist, Squid old chap, although I'm not entirely sure. Obscurantist pretty much means an elitist snob who considers their tastes superior to those of others with more populist leanings, purely because they're more esoteric and off the beaten track.
Apologies for having swallowed both a dictionary and a thesaurus, but my excuse is that I was force-fed them both whilst studying English at Uni. As far as I know, no one has yet invented a drug which cleanses your system of gratuitous verbosity (aargh!)
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