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snob |
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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