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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Snob  \Snob\,  n.  [Icel.  sn[=a]pr  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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  snob 
  n  :  a  person  regarded  as  arrogant  and  annoying  [syn:  {prig},  {snot}] 




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