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SNOBS
Noun
snobs
plural of snob
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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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