Category:Snob

Snob, n. Etym: [icel. snapr 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. Essentially vulgar, a snob. -- a gilded snob, but none the less a snob. R. G. White.

2. (eng. Univ.)

Defn: a townsman. [canf]

3. A journeyman shoemaker. [prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

4. 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" de quincey.