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▪ I. snob, n.1|snɒb|
Also 9 Sc. snab.
[Orig. slang, of obscure origin.]
1. a. dial. or colloq. A shoemaker or cobbler; a cobbler's apprentice.
α1781in Hone Every-day Bk. II. 837 Sir William Blase, a snob by trade. 1785Grose Dict. Vulgar T., Snob, a nick name for a shoemaker. 1819Sporting Mag. IV. 249 Tom Jenkins was known as a cobbler or snob. 1824W. E. Andrews Rev. Fox's Bk. Mart. I. 252 Both Snip and Snob were burned for their pains. 1880Fraser's Mag. Nov. 642 Even among the snobs the custom of the trade is against giving credit.
β1808Jamieson, Snab, a cant term for a..cobler's boy. 1813Picken Poems II. 132 To flame as an author our Snab was sae bent. 1828Moir Mansie Wauch xiv, Rory Skirl, the snab, and Geordie Thump, the dyer. 1896W. Harvey Kenneth-crook 38 (E.D.D.), He had entered the craft in the usual way by being what the villagers called a ‘snab’.
b. The last sheep to be sheared; hence, the roughest or most difficult sheep to shear; = cobbler 1 b. Austral. and N.Z. slang.
1945C. E. W. Bean On Wool Track (new ed.) 135 The sheep most difficult to shear, which naturally is left last in the pen, is also called the ‘snob’. 1955G. Bowen Wool Away! 157 Snob, the last sheep in the pen. 1971J. S. Gunn Distrib. Shearing Terms N.S.W. 9 As it is the practice to leave rough sheep until last it is only to be expected that snob and cobbler for both ‘rough’ and ‘last’ will occur... Snob and cobbler meant ‘last’ before specialising to ‘rough’. 1975L. Ryan Shearers i. 49 ‘Get on to this wrinkled bludger!’ he said. It was the last sheep in the pen... ‘Real snob, ain't it?’
†2. Cambridge slang. Any one not a gownsman; a townsman. Obs. (Cf. cad2 4.)
c1796in Whibley In Cap & Gown (1889) 87 Snobs call him Nicholson! Plebeian name. 1828Sporting Mag. XXI. 428 A capital front rank of ‘tassells’,..all eager for a ‘slap at a snob’. 1865Sat. Rev. Sept. 298/2 Happily the annals of Oxford present no instance of a ‘snob’ murdered in the streets.
3. a. A person belonging to the ordinary or lower classes of society; one having no pretensions to rank or gentility.
1831Lincoln Herald 22 July 3/6 The nobs have lost their dirty seats—the honest snobs have got 'em. 1834W. H. Brookfield in F. M. Brookfield Cambridge ‘Apostles’ (1906) iv. 66 Snobs go early [to the Grand Opera, Paris], buy pit tickets.., and beset comers at a quarter past seven to give them 5½ francs for their tickets. 1841J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk III. 165 In the presence of a tail of snobs who accompanied him on his way. 1852Earp Gold Col. Austr. 9 The majority of the colonists are essentially snobs, and they are justly proud of the distinction.
b. One who has little or no breeding or good taste; a vulgar or ostentatious person.
1838Mrs. Sherwood Henry Milner iii. ix. 175 He is a genteel young man—no snob—quite the gentleman. 1843Thackeray Irish Sk.-bk. Wks. 1879 XVIII. 111 A vulgar man in England..chiefly displays his character of snob by..swaggering and showing off in his coarse dull stupid way. 1859Slang Dict. 97 Snob, a low, vulgar..person.
c. One who meanly or vulgarly admires and seeks to imitate, or associate with, those of superior rank or wealth; one who wishes to be regarded as a person of social importance.
1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs i, I mean by positive [Snobs] such persons as are Snobs everywhere,..being by nature endowed with Snobbishness. 1860H. Mayhew Upper Rhine iv. i. 183 So necessary..are the professional titles considered by the supreme Snob of an authority from whom we quote. 1863M. E. Braddon J. Marchmont I. ii. 42 ‘What a snob I am,’ he thought; ‘always bragging of home’. 1882Mrs. J. H. Riddell Pr. of Wales's Garden-Party 127 He was..such a snob, he felt pleased his clerks should hear a butler ask for a situation.
d. One who despises those who are considered inferior in rank, attainment, or taste. Freq. in extended sense with defining word that limits its reference to a particular sphere.
Overlaps with sense 3 c.
1911G. B. Shaw Getting Married 228 All her childish affectations of conscientious scruple and religious impulse have been applauded and deferred to until she has become an ethical snob of the first water. 1925F. Scott Fitzgerald Great Gatsby vii. 146 Listen, Tom. If you're such a snob, why did you invite him to lunch? 1931A. Huxley Music at Night 121, I have met several adolescent consumption-snobs{ddd}these ingenuous young tubercle-snobs. 1935C. Isherwood Mr Norris changes Trains iv. 58, I rather enjoyed playing with the idea that he was, in fact, a dangerous criminal... Nearly every member of my generation is a crime-snob. 1939[see intellectual a. 1 b]. 1959G. Freeman Jack would be Gentleman iii. 54 God knows, Moyra, I'm not a snob but that sort of person just wouldn't understand. 1960J. O'Hara Sermons & Soda-Water I. 26 He doesn't want to know her any better and neither would my mother. That isn't snobbishness... You're the snob of us two. 1977T. Heald Just Desserts i. 16 He does..that frightful column in the Chronicle... The wine snob's guide to an early cirrhosis.
e. inverted snob: see inverted ppl. a. 9.
4. = black-leg n. 3.
a1859De Quincey (Webster), Those who work for lower wages during a strike are called snobs, the men who stand out being ‘nobs’.
5. a. attrib., as snob ambition, snob jargon, snob-land, snob nature, snob ore, snob school, snob word, etc.; snob-free adj.; snob appeal, attractiveness to snobs; snob-stick, = sense 4 (cf. knobstick 2); snob value, value as a commodity prized by snobs or as an indication of superiority.
Other examples occur in Thackeray's Book of Snobs.
1866Carlyle Remin. (1881) II. 189 What of snob ambition there might be in me.
1933Leavis & Thompson Culture & Environment 15 (heading) The snob appeal. 1943Scrutiny XI. 289 There is, of course, the same snob-appeal, and just as Mr. Richards is always introducing a Shakespearean phrase.., so Jeeves is always quoting Pope. 1958M. Dickens Man Overboard xii. 192 There's a snob appeal about having a retired officer as bursar. 1978J. Pearson Façades vii. 127 Osbert and Edith [Sitwell]..had inherited..style; their snob appeal was undeniable.
1961D. L. Munby God & Rich Society iv. 68 Americans and Scandinavians have a lot to teach us about real social equality and snob-free education.
1952E. Partridge From Sanskrit to Brazil 59 The most dangerous snob jargon of all is that used by ordinarily well-educated..men and women.
1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxxii, O you pride of all Snobland! O you crawling, truckling..lacqueys and parasites!
1883Congregationalist May 377 The snob nature comes out in strange ways.
1848Thackeray Bk. Snobs Pref., It is Beautiful..to sink shafts in society and come upon rich veins of Snob⁓ore.
1953R. Chandler Let. 16 Sept. (1981) 351 If your boy won't behave himself..you can send him to one of the New England snob schools like Groton. 1978M. Birmingham Sleep in Ditch 113 She'd been married, very young, almost the moment she'd left her snob school.
1860Slang Dict. 221 Snob-stick, a workman who refuses to join in strikes, or trade unions.
1936Proc. Inst. Automobile Engineers XXX. 762 Generally, if the big luxury car leads with any new refinement sooner or later the lower and lowest-priced cars follow, the new feature acquires from its aristocratic origin what has been aptly termed ‘snob-value’. 1955T. H. Pear Eng. Social Differences 131 The terms of normal psychology have never achieved snob-value. 1969M. Fish in A. S. C. Ross What are U? 78 It was an example of faulty handcraft giving a snob value to a product that could have been made more efficiently by machine.
1935A. P. Herbert What a Word! iv. 92 ‘Beginning’ is musical and ‘commencement’ is not. Also, it is a Snob-word.
b. Used predicatively as adj., fashionable, snobbish, pretentious.
1958Spectator 14 Feb. 209/3 A little slower than Buchan, a little less naively snob than Dornford Yates. 1970Daily Tel. 9 Apr. 17/2 Champagne we consider too snob, and we're all off hard liquor. We drink wine now as an aperitif.
▪ II. snob, n.2|snɒb|
[Of obscure origin.]
A game of cricket played with a soft ball and a thick stick in lieu of a bat. In full, snob-cricket. ? Now obs.
1888A. Lang in Steel & Lyttelton Cricket i. 1 There is a sport known at some schools as ‘stump-cricket’, ‘snob-cricket’, or..‘Dex’. 1892Daily News 6 May 5/2 They are subject to very dangerous accidents at cricket, and might well confine themselves to ‘snob’. 1893J. W. Baines in A. G. Bradley et al. Hist. Marlborough Coll. xxii. 220 The great thing was ‘Snob’ cricket, which speedily became a most popular and fashionable pursuit. 1894Daily News 10 May 6/1 Snob, or stump cricket, is indeed an excellent game. 1901Blackw. Mag. Oct. 490/2 The game known as ‘snob-cricket’, little cricket, ‘stump-and-ball’, and so forth, might be introduced.
▪ III. snob, v.1 Now dial.
Also 3–5 snobbe.
[Imitative.]
intr. To sob. Hence ˈsnobbing vbl. n.
c1300Old Age vii. in E.E.P. (1862) 149, I snurpe, i snobbe, i sneipe on snovte. a1380St. Ambrose 940 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 23 He wept and snobbed and ofte abreid. 1388Wyclif Lam. iii. 56 Turne thou not awei thin eere fro my sobbyng [v.r. snobbyng] and cries. c1420Chron. Vilod. 1865 He with sore sykyng & snobbyng bothe Vnswered þe monke. Ibid. 1986 Þus ladyes alle..snobbedone & sykedone fulle sore. 1608Middleton Mad World iii. ii, She cannot hear me for snobbing. 1668L'Estrange Vis. Quev. (1708) 124 There was such Blowing, Snobbing, Sniveling,..that there was no enduring the House. 18..in Eng. Dial. Dict. s.v., She neither sighed, nor snobbed, nor spoke, nor nothing. 1884–in dial. glossaries (Worc., Glouc.).
▪ IV. † snob, v.2 Obs.—1
[? var. of snub v. Cf. snobberly adv.]
intr. To gird at something.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. vi. 107 A few words being spoken to Sancho, snobbing at his Insensiblenesse. |