单词 | snob |
释义 | snob n.   1. a a person with an exaggerated respect for social position or wealth and who despises socially inferior connections. b (attrib.) related to or characteristic of this attitude.   2. a person who behaves with servility to social superiors.   3. a person who despises others whose (usu. specified) tastes or attainments are considered inferior (an intellectual snob; a wine snob). Derivatives snobbery n. (pl. -ies). snobbish adj. snobbishly adv. snobbishness n. snobby adj. (snobbier, snobbiest). Etymology: 18th c. (now dial.) 'cobbler': orig. unkn. |
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