| 单词 | snob |
| 释义 | snob (once / 1769 pages) n If your best friend tells you that you've become a snob, he means that you've become condescending and you like to think you're better than everyone else. Of course maybe he's a snob for looking down on your behavior — how annoying! Snob has a funny history. It used be slang for "shoemaker," then "common person," and then came to mean "someone who doesn't have a degree from a fancy university," and then it started to mean "people who liked to pretend they have degrees and are generally fancy and look down on common people like shoemakers." Nowadays, snob isn't only for people with false pretentions. Rich people who despise less tasteful folks are snobs, too. WORD FAMILYsnob: snobbery, snobbish, snobbism, snobby, snobs+/snobbery: snobberies/snobbish: snobbishly, snobbishness/snobbism: snobbisms USAGE EXAMPLESHere he let loose as a cosmopolitan snob. Seattle Times(Dec 30, 2016) Sensitive and perceptive as he is, he becomes, in his new moneyed condition, a snob, amused by the new deference which greets him everywhere. The New Yorker(Dec 28, 2016) “It was impossible to imagine what happened, even in a nightmare,” he said, according to Snob online publication. Washington Times(Dec 25, 2016) n a person regarded as arrogant and annoying Syn|Hyper prig, snoot, snot disagreeable person, unpleasant person a person who is not pleasant or agreeable |
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