Snob
[snɒb] or [snɑb]
Definition
(n.) A vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors.
(n.) A townsman.
(n.) A journeyman shoemaker.
(n.) A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick.
Editor: Tamara
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Upstart, mushroom, PARVENU, pretender to gentility, pretentious fellow.
Typed by Eliza
Definition
n. a vulgar person esp. one who apes gentility a tuft-hunter: a shoemaker: a workman who works for lower wages than his fellows a rat one who will not join a strike: a townsman as opposed to a gownsman in Cambridge slang.—n. Snob′bery the quality of being snobbish.—adj. Snob′bish.—adv. Snob′bishly.—ns. Snob′bishness; Snob′bism.—adj. Snob′by.—ns. Snob′ling a little snob; Snoboc′racy snobs as a powerful class; Snobog′rapher; Snobog′raphy the description of snobs and snobbery.
Edited by Johanna