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Snob

Snob

,
Noun.
[Icel.
snāpr
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.
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.

Definition 2024

Snob

Snob

See also: snob and snöb

German

Noun

Snob m ‎(genitive Snobs, plural Snobs)

  1. snob

snob

snob

See also: Snob and snöb

English

Noun

snob ‎(plural snobs)

  1. (colloquial) A cobbler or shoemaker. [from 18th c.]
    • 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage 2014, p. 57:
      The snobs were also kind to him, and gave him a pair of boots which they assured him were of a type and quality reserved entirely for officers […].
  2. (dated) A member of the lower classes; a commoner. [from 19th c.]
    • 1844, Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit:
      'D'ye know a slap-up sort of button, when you see it?' said the youth. 'Don't look at mine, if you ain't a judge, because these lions' heads was made for men of men of taste: not snobs.'
    • 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt:
      I tell you, sir, that I have a brain of my own, and that I should feel myself to be a snob and a slave if I did not use it.
  3. (informal) A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes. [from 20th c.]
    • 1958, Arnold Wesker, Roots:
      If wanting the best things in life means being a snob then glory hallelujah I'm a snob.

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Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ɔp

Noun

snob m ‎(plural snobs, diminutive snobje n)

  1. snob

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French

Etymology

From English snob

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /snɔb/

Adjective

snob m, f ‎(plural snobs)

  1. snobbish, snobby
    J’suis snob… J’suis snob…
    C’est vraiment l’seul défaut que j’gobe.     (Boris Vian, J’suis snob, 1954)

Noun

snob m, f ‎(plural snobs)

  1. snob
    C’est un snob.

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Italian

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English

Noun

snob m ‎(invariable)

  1. snob

Adjective

snob ‎(invariable)

  1. snobbish

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English snob.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /snôb/

Noun

snȍb m ‎(Cyrillic spelling сно̏б)

  1. snob

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Slovak

Noun

snob m ‎(genitive singular snoba, nominative plural snobi, declension pattern of chlap)

  1. snob

Etymology

From English snob.

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