单词	snob
释义	snobsnob /snɒb $ snɑːb/ ●○○ noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINsnob Origin: 1800-1900 snob ‘shoemaker, person of low social rank’ (18-19 centuries) Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES I don't want to sound like a snob, but I found the decor vulgar. My mother was such a snob she wouldn't let me play with the local children. Since going to university he'd become a snob, embarrassed of his family. They're just a bunch of snobs - you wouldn't want to be friends with them anyway. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS And I had to say yes, because I didn't want to be called a snob too. I don't want to sound a snob but I thought it vulgar. It has all of the requisite sand, surf, sun, snobs and sin to go along with its saucy swimwear. Perhaps it's mountain snobbery to wish to avoid such a crowd, and if so then I am a mountain snob. Ronald McDonald is wearing a suit and one of the oldest vineyards in Napa is making fun of wine snobs. She did not want to cultivate the snob image. The overall results were even worse than that, at least for Europhiles and wine snobs everywhere. Warren is from an upper middleclass Connecticut family; he's a bit of a snob. Thesaurus Longman Language Activatorsomeone who thinks they are better than people from a lower social class► snobbish someone who is snobbish thinks that they are better than people from a lower social class: · Snobbish home-owners are protesting about a refugee family moving into their street.· Aunt Harriet was very rich and very snobbish. ► snob someone who thinks that they are better than people from a lower social class, and does not want to talk to them or be friends with them: · My mother was such a snob she wouldn't let me play with the local children.· They're just a bunch of snobs - you wouldn't want to be friends with them anyway. ► stuck-up informal proud and unfriendly because you think you are better and more important than other people: · Tanya is so stuck-up. She won't go out with anyone who went to a state college.· the spoiled, stuck-up daughter of a millionaire someone who thinks they are better than other people► snob someone who thinks that they are better than people from a lower social class: · Since going to university he'd become a snob, embarrassed by his family.· I don't want to sound like a snob, but I found the decor vulgar. ► snobbish someone who is snobbish thinks that they are better than people from a lower class, so that they will not be friendly with them or do the things they do: · Some people find her snobbish, but she's really just shy.· his snobbish attitude to soap operas on TVsnobbish about: · She's very snobbish about people who live in the suburbs. ► stuck-up informal someone who is stuck-up thinks that they are better than other people, and behaves in a proud, unfriendly way: · The children who go to that school are a bit stuck-up.· a pompous, stuck-up little man ► pompous someone who is pompous tries to sound important, especially by using very long or formal words: · She found him pompous and annoying.· The headteacher gave a pompous speech about 'the values of learning'. ► self-important thinking you are much more important than you really are: · As a waiter, he had grown to despise self-important customers.· He was one of those self-important little officials who made everyone call him "Sir". ► haughty someone who is haughty behaves in a proud and very unfriendly way, as if they think other people are completely unimportant: · People thought of him as being haughty and difficult to talk to.· Jessica turned away with a haughty look on her face. ► snotty informal rude and unfriendly because you think you are better than other people: · The hotel receptionist was a bit snotty to me this morning.· a bunch of snotty rich kids Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY► intellectual snobs  a bunch of intellectual snobs ► music/wine snob ► has ... snob appeal  That kind of car has real snob appeal. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► snob value/appeal And of course there is the sheer snob appeal of being able to avoid the herd. These berries even have snob appeal. Three university researchers say they now have a surprising answer: snob appeal. 1someone who thinks they are better than people from a lower social class – used to show disapproval:  Stop being such a snob. I don’t want to sound like a snob, but I thought she was vulgar.2someone who thinks they are better than other people because they know more about something – used to show disapproval:  a bunch of intellectual snobsmusic/wine snob3snob value/appeal British English something that has snob value is liked by people who think they are better than other people:  That kind of car has real snob appeal.
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