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

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