English Dictionary: Snob | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Snob \Snob\, n. [Icel. sn[be]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 [bd]nobs[b8] --De Quincey. |