Snob

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Snob \Snob\, n. [Icel. sn[=a]pr a dolt, impostor, charlatan. Cf.
     {Snub}.]
     1. A vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more
        fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who
        apes his superiors. --Thackeray.
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              Essentially vulgar, a snob. -- a gilded snob, but
              none the less a snob.                 --R. G. White.
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     2. (Eng. Univ.) A townsman. [Canf]
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     3. A journeyman shoemaker. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
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     4. A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who
        refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick.
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              Those who work for lower wages during a strike are
              called snobs, the men who stand out being "nobs"
                                                    --De Quincey.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  snob
       n : a person regarded as arrogant and annoying [syn: {prig}, {snot}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  20 Moby Thesaurus words for "snob":
     Brahmin, bootlicker, cold-shoulder, cut, egghead, elitist,
     hanger-on, high-hat, highbrow, lickspittle, mandarin, name-dropper,
     ostracize, prig, snoot, snot, snub, sycophant, toady, tufthunter