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noun

Snob 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. "Essentially vulgar, a snob. a gilded snob, but none the less a snob."

(Eng. Univ.) A townsman. (Canf)

A journeyman shoemaker. (Prov. Eng.)

A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick. "Those who work for lower wages during a strike are called snobs, the men who stand out being "nobs""

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"Snob" Quotes from Famous Books

... that time Glendenning's personal elevation remained invisible to us, and we began to wonder if he were not that most lamentable of fellow-creatures, a clerical snob. I am not sure still that he might not have been so in some degree, there was such a mixture of joy that was almost abject in his genuine affection for us when Mrs. Bentley openly approved us on her first visit. I dare say he would not have quite abandoned us in any case; but he must have felt ...

— A Pair of Patient Lovers • William Dean Howells

... afraid we're getting an extraordinarily prejudiced view. I can't help being a snob here. I despise ...

— Strange Alliance • Bryce Walton

... behave as all honest fellows should; and never touch a fish or a head of game which belongs to another man without his express leave; and then people will call you a gentleman, and treat you like one; and perhaps give you good sport: instead of hitting you into the river, or calling you a poaching snob. ...

— The Water-Babies - A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby • Charles Kingsley

... of Madam Snob, one will not fare as well, for having nothing noble in her own nature she is constantly picking flaws in the character of others. Madam Snob will entertain you with a long account of her family connections. Poor soul she is constantly ...

— Bohemian Society • Lydia Leavitt

... The Inn Album is founded on fact, though it is not, like Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, an almost literal transcript from life. The characters of the poem are four, all unnamed: a young "polished snob," an impoverished middle-aged nobleman, a woman, whom he had seduced, and who is now married to a clergyman; and a young girl, her friend, who is betrothed to the younger of the two men. Of these characters, the only one ...

— An Introduction to the Study of Browning • Arthur Symons

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