Snob (?), n. [Icel. snapr 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.
<-- 5. One who adopts an offensive air of superiority to those he considers as inferiors, esp. by avoiding or ignoring them. -->
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