Synonyms for snob
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : snob |
| Phonetic Transcription : snÉ’b |
Définition of snob
Origin :- 1781, "a shoemaker, a shoemaker's apprentice," of unknown origin. It came to be used in Cambridge University slang c.1796, often contemptuously, for "townsman, local merchant," and passed then into literary use, where by 1831 it was being used for "person of the ordinary or lower classes." Meaning "person who vulgarly apes his social superiors" is by 1843, popularized 1848 by William Thackeray's "Book of Snobs." The meaning later broadened to include those who insist on their gentility, in addition to those who merely aspire to it, and by 1911 the word had its main modern sense of "one who despises those considered inferior in rank, attainment, or taste."
- noun person who looks down on others
- That counts me a snob in my mental attitude toward the Lockwoods.
- Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
- He who bullies those who are not in a position to resist may be a snob, but cannot be a gentleman.
- Extract from : « Self-Help » by Samuel Smiles
- We are left with the uneasy impression that William is a snob.
- Extract from : « Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, July 8, 1914 » by Various
- People will say he was a vulgar parvenu, a sycophant, a snob—heaven knows what.
- Extract from : « The Woman Thou Gavest Me » by Hall Caine
- You'll never be a snob, Beth, no matter how much money you have.
- Extract from : « The Vagrant Duke » by George Gibbs
- "I am a snob," she resumed, expecting him to contradict her.
- Extract from : « The Paliser case » by Edgar Saltus
- She was afraid that she had been a bit of a snob, a trifle caddish.
- Extract from : « In a Little Town » by Rupert Hughes
- The study of Pip is meant to indicate that with all his virtues Pip was a snob.
- Extract from : « Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens » by G. K. Chesterton
- If he does it consciously, the chances are he is a snob for doing it.
- Extract from : « Follow My leader » by Talbot Baines Reed
- And apparently the girl was far from being a prude or a snob.
- Extract from : « A Soldier of the Legion » by C. N. Williamson
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