Thesaurus: snob

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1. 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.
2. n. A townsman.
3. n. A journeyman shoemaker.
4. n. A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick.
5. n. a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
6. 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.
7. A townsman. [Canf]
8. n:100 n. a person regarded as arrogant and annoying