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Found 3 hits - Term: snob, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
snob \snob\, n. icel. sn=apr a dolt, impostor, charlatan. cf.
   snub.
   1. a vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more
      fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who
      apes his superiors. --thackeray.
      1913 webster

            essentially vulgar, a snob. -- a gilded snob, but
            none the less a snob.                 --r. g. white.
      1913 webster

   2. eng. univ. a townsman. canf
      1913 webster

   3. a journeyman shoemaker. prov. eng. --halliwell.
      1913 webster

   4. a workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who
      refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick.
      1913 webster

            those who work for lower wages during a strike are
            called snobs, the men who stand out being "nobs"
                                                  --de quincey.
      1913 webster
      1913 webster
see also:
snub 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
snob
     n : a person regarded as arrogant and annoying syn: prig, snot
see also:
prig snot 
[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
20 moby thesaurus words for "snob":
   brahmin, bootlicker, cold-shoulder, cut, egghead, elitist,
   hanger-on, high-hat, highbrow, lickspittle, mandarin, name-dropper,
   ostracize, prig, snoot, snot, snub, sycophant, toady, tufthunter





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