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English Dictionary: Snob by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
snob
n
  1. a person regarded as arrogant and annoying [syn: snob, prig, snot, snoot]
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.
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