snob

[snob]

If your best friend tells you that you've become a snob, he means that you've become condescending and you like to think you're better than everyone else. Of course maybe he's a snob for looking down on your behavior how annoying!

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A vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors.

Noun
a person regarded as arrogant and annoying

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.

n.
A townsman.

n.
A journeyman shoemaker.

n.
A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick.

Snob

Snob , n. [Icel. sn'bepr 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.

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"

A vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors.

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Usage Examples

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

I just am a snob when it comes to humor.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

I always, always meant to be on stage. I only ended up even auditioning for television and movies because I was understudying a Turgenev play on Broadway and was so broke that, when I got a mini-series, I had to take it and was so ashamed because I was such a snob.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob.