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Webster 1913 Edition
Snob
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.
Essentially vulgar, a
snob
. – a gilded snob
, but none the less a snob
. R. G. White.
2.
(Eng. Univ.)
A townsman.
[Canf]
3.
A journeyman shoemaker.
[Prov. Eng.]
Halliwell.
4.
A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick.
Those who work for lower wages during a strike are called
snobs
, the men who stand out being “nobs” De Quincey.