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snob

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

            Essentially vulgar, a snob. -- a gilded snob, but
            none the less a snob.                 --R. G. White.

   2. (Eng. Univ.) 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.

Source : WordNet®

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