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Meaning of SNOB

Pronunciation:  snâb

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
 
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 Synonyms: prig, snot
 
 See Also: disagreeable person, unpleasant person

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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.
 

 

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