SNOBS

Noun

snobs

plural of snob

Anagrams

• bo's'ns

Source: Wiktionary


SNOB

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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