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- [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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