Snob

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. One who tends to patronize, rebuff, or ignore people regarded as social inferiors and imitate, admire, or seek association with people regarded as social superiors.
  • n. One who affects an offensive air of self-satisfied superiority in matters of taste or intellect.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A person who seeks to be, or is, a member of the upper classes and looks down on lower classes, such as the middle class and the poor. More generally, an egotistical person who often thinks of people as inferior, particularly anyone not being within their clique or class.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A shoemaker; a journeyman shoemaker.
  • n. A townsman as opposed to a gownsman; a Philistine.
  • n. One who is servile in spirit or conduct toward those whom he considers his superiors, and correspondingly proud and insolent toward those whom he considers his inferiors; one who vulgarly apes gentility.
  • n. A workman who continues working while others are out on strike; one who works for lower wages than other workmen; a knobstick; a rat: so called in abuse.
  • To sob or weep violently.
  • n. A convulsive sob.
  • n. Mucus of the nose.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
  • Antonym
    gentleman    lady   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    Form
    snobby    snobbish   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    townsman    rat    knobstick    flunkey    lackey    toady   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bob    Cobb    Job    Punjab    Rob    blob    bob    cob    cobb    dob   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    cad    prig    toady    humbug    hypocrite    liar    sycophant    fawner    swindler    bounder