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noun

Snob n.

A vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors. "Essentially vulgar, a snob. a gilded snob, but none the less a snob."

(Eng. Univ.) A townsman. (Canf)

A journeyman shoemaker. (Prov. Eng.)

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""

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"Snob" Quotes from Famous Books

... joined with his wife in thanking providence for granting them so great a happiness. But BULMER has different fashions of showing his superiority. I will do him the credit of saying that I do not believe him to be a Snob. He does not prostrate himself before the great, since he believes himself to be greater than they can ever be. But he knows that ordinary human nature is apt to be impressed by the appearance of intimate familiarity with persons of title. And BULMER therefore ...

— Punch, Volume 101, September 19, 1891 • Francis Burnand

... to have dinner at three o'clock," she said, "just as mother always had it on Thanksgiving Day. If you don't want me to ask Roger Poole, I won't. But I think you are an awful snob, Barry." ...

— Contrary Mary • Temple Bailey

... could confess the motor car to my man with comparative calmness. That I should fall was no doubt a disappointment to him. As a conscientious snob and a cherisher of conservative ideals, he could mention it to other valets without a blush. The mules however, towards which the motor was to lead, was a different thing; and while poor Locker excavated me from the motor coat, my mind was busily devising means to keep the horrid ...

— The Princess Passes • Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson

... all others that the Auto-Comrade cannot away with, it is the flaccid, indolent, stodgy brain of the porcupine. If people have let their minds slump down into porcupinishness, or have never taken the trouble to rescue them from that ignominious condition—well, the Auto-Comrade is no snob; when all's said, he is a rather democratic sort of chap. But he has to draw the line somewhere, you know, and he really must beg to be excused from rubbing shoulders with such intellectual rabble, for instance, as blocks upper Fifth Avenue on Sunday noons. He prefers instead the rabble ...

— The Joyful Heart • Robert Haven Schauffler

... whom thou hast circled. Sport not too jauntily thy raiment, because it is novel in Mardi; nor boast of the fleetness of thy Chamois, because it is unlike a canoe. Vaunt not of thy pedigree, Taji; for Media himself will measure it with thee there by the furlong. Be not a "snob," Taji. ...

— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I (of 2) • Herman Melville

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