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noun a person who imitates, cultivates, or slavishly admires social superiors and is condescending or overbearing to others.
a person who believes himself or herself an expert or connoisseur in a given field and is condescending toward or disdainful of those who hold other opinions or have different tastes regarding this field: a musical snob.
Origin of snob First recorded in 1775–85; origin uncertain; first used as a nickname for “a cobbler or cobbler's apprentice,” hence “a townsman, someone of low class or lacking good breeding, commoner,” hence ”someone who imitates persons of higher rank”
OTHER WORDS FROM snob an·ti·snob, noun Words nearby snob snitch, snitch line, snitchy, snivel, snively, snob , snob appeal, snobbery, snobbish, snobby, SNOBOL
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Example sentences from the Web for snob You write a lot about how you were a jerk or a snob when it came to comedy or film.
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What a snob ... Oh, I understand why he wants you to go to college.
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He was educated, like Fleming, at Eton, but unlike his creator, he was no snob .
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Amazingly, considering the subject matter, the Jack Taylor novels have a touch of snob appeal.
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Watch as Jon Stewart schools him on the actual meaning of a “snob .”
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"Thou shall not be a snob ;" such is the first principle at present of Cockney ethics.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 | Various
A man with a brain full of all the culture of the ages—and with the heart of a mummy and the soul of a snob !
Love's Pilgrimage | Upton Sinclair
"I'll own I'm a snob ," said Eunice, with maddening meekness.
April Hopes | William Dean Howells
Both had been snob s in a sense, and in a sense he too was a snob .
The Law of Hemlock Mountain | Hugh Lundsford
No man has impaled snob bery with such a stinging rapier, but he always accused himself of being a snob , past all cure.
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British Dictionary definitions for snob noun a person who strives to associate with those of higher social status and who behaves condescendingly to others Compare inverted snob (as modifier ) snob appeal a person having similar pretensions with regard to his tastes, etc an intellectual snob
Derived forms of snob snobbery , noun snobbish , adjective snobbishly , adverb snobbishness or snobbism , noun
snobby , adjective
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Word Origin for snob C18 (in the sense: shoemaker; hence, C19: a person who flatters those of higher station, etc): of unknown origin
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Words related to snob pretender, upstart, parvenu, braggart, highbrow, name-dropper, smarty pants