Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
SNOB
snob, prig, snot, snoot
(noun) a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
snob (plural snobs)
(informal, derogatory) A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes. [from 20th c.]
(colloquial) A cobbler or shoemaker. [from 18th c.]
(dated) A member of the lower classes; a commoner. [from 19th c.]
(archaic) A workman who works for lower wages than his fellows, or who will not join a strike.
(Cambridge University) A townsman, as opposed to a gownsman.
Synonym: cad
Coordinate terms
• posh
• social climber
Anagrams
• BN(O)s, BNOs, BSON, bo's'n, nobs
Source: Wiktionary
Snob, n. Etym: [Icel. snapr 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.)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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