snob

Origin unknown.

• enPR: snŏb, IPA^(key): /snɒb/
• Rhymes: -ɒb

snob (plural snobs)

1. (informal) A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes. [from 20th c.]
   • 1958, Arnold Wesker, Roots:

     If wanting the best things in life means being a snob then glory hallelujah I'm a snob.

2. (colloquial) A cobbler or shoemaker. [from 18th c.]
   • 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage 2014, p. 57:

     The snobs were also kind to him, and gave him a pair of boots which they assured him were of a type and quality reserved entirely for officers […]

3. (dated) A member of the lower classes; a commoner. [from 19th c.]
   • 1844, Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit:

     'D'ye know a slap-up sort of button, when you see it?' said the youth. 'Don't look at mine, if you ain't a judge, because these lions' heads was made for men of men of taste: not snobs.'

   • 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt:

     I tell you, sir, that I have a brain of my own, and that I should feel myself to be a snob and a slave if I did not use it.

4. (archaic) A workman who works for lower wages than his fellows, or who will not join a strike.
5. (Cambridge University) A townsman, as opposed to a gownsman.

• posh
• social climber

• snobbery, snobbism
• snobbish
• snobby
• snobbiness
• snobbishness
• snobbishly

• BSON, bo's'n, nobs

Borrowed from English snob.

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• Rhymes: -ɔp

snob m (plural snobs, diminutive snobje n)

1. snob

• bons

Borrowed from English snob.

• IPA^(key): /snɔb/

snob (plural snobs)

1. snobbish, snobby
   • 1954, “J’suis snob”, performed by Boris Vian:

     J’suis snob… J’suis snob / C’est vraiment l’seul défaut que j’gobe.

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snob m or f (plural snobs)

1. snob

   C’est un snob.

   He's a snob.

• snober
• snobinard
• snobisme
• snobissime

• “snob” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• bons

Borrowed from English snob.

• IPA^(key): /ˈznɔb/[1]

snob m (invariable)

1. snob

snob (invariable)

1. snobbish

Borrowed from English snob.

• IPA^(key): /snôb/

snȍb m (Cyrillic spelling сно̏б)

1. snob

Borrowed from English snob.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsnɔp/

snob m (genitive singular snoba, nominative plural snobi, genitive plural snobov, declension pattern of chlap)

1. snob

• snobka
• snobský
• snobsky
• snobstvo

• snob in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk