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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