Definitions for: Snob

[n] a person regarded as arrogant and annoying

Webster (1913) 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.

Synonyms: prig, snot

See Also: disagreeable person, unpleasant person

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