Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who despises, ignores, or is patronizing to those he or she considers inferior.
- noun One who is convinced of his or her superiority in matters of taste or intellect.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A convulsive sob.
- noun Mucus of the nose.
- To sob or weep violently.
- noun A shoemaker; a journeyman shoemaker.
- noun A townsman as opposed to a gownsman; a Philistine.
- noun One who is servile in spirit or conduct toward those whom he considers his superiors, and correspondingly proud and insolent toward those whom he considers his inferiors; one who vulgarly apes gentility.
- noun A workman who continues working while others are out on strike; one who works for lower wages than other workmen; a knobstick; a rat: so called in abuse.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors.
- noun (Eng. Univ.), Canf A townsman.
- noun Prov. Eng. A journeyman shoemaker.
- noun A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun disapproving, informal A person who seeks to be, or is, a member of the
upper classes and looks down on lower classes, such as themiddle class and thepoor . More generally, anegotistical person who often thinks of people asinferior , particularly anyone not being within theirclique orclass .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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"Ah! my dear old friend, " he said, -you see I have become what they call the snob!
Murder on the Orient Express Christie, Agatha, 1890-1976 1933
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That's what I call a snob -- judging people by whether they're rich and important -- by whether it's worth while to know them.
Lady Connie Humphry Ward 1885
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You keep saying that, unless I think the BSO is overpaid, I'm some kind of snob, but you yourself are a snob from the other end, and I don't put any more moral stock in populist snobbery than elitist snobbery.
In the ballpark Matthew Guerrieri 2009
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"I could be labelled a snob or a stuck up, affecting the professional relationship with my team members."
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"I could be labelled a snob or a stuck up, affecting the professional relationship with my team members."
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An unbelievable snob is described at the New York Times article at the link.
Stop being snobby about reading Maxine 2008
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An unbelievable snob is described at the New York Times article at the link.
Stop being snobby about reading Maxine 2008
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I still do not know who this elite snob is nor do his supporters for that matter – they are voting on skin color.
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An unbelievable snob is described at the New York Times article at the link.
December 2008 Maxine 2008
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Yep, me, the nobody film snob is going to question the guru of comic books.
Jason Statham Wants to Play Daredevil, Frank Miller Agrees « FirstShowing.net 2008
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