Definition of snobs Snobs

/snɑˈbz/ - [snabz] -

We found 3 definitions of snobs from 2 different sources.

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What does snobs mean?

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  • snobs (Noun)
    Plural of snob.

Part of speech

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  • snobs, noun, plural of snob.

WordNet

WordNet by Princeton University

Noun

Plural: snobs

snob - a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
  prig, snot, snoot
  disagreeable person, unpleasant person a person who is not pleasant or agreeable
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  • snob (Noun)
    A person who seeks to be, or is, a member of the upper class es and looks down on lower classes, such as the middle class and the poor. More generally, an egotistical person who often thinks of people as inferior, particularly anyone not being within their clique or class.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

  • snob (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.
  • snob (n.)
    A townsman.
  • snob (n.)
    A journeyman shoemaker.
  • snob (n.)
    A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

  • snob
    snob, n. a vulgar person, esp. one who apes gentility, a tuft-hunter: a shoemaker: a workman who works for lower wages than his fellows, a rat, one who will not join a strike: a townsman, as opposed to a gownsman, in Cambridge slang.—n. Snob′bery, the quality of being snobbish.—adj. Snob′bish.—adv. Snob′bishly.—ns. Snob′bishness; Snob′bism.—adj. Snob′by.—ns. Snob′ling, a little snob; Snoboc′racy, snobs as a powerful class; Snobog′rapher; Snobog′raphy, the description of snobs and snobbery. [Prob. prov. snap, a boy, from Ice. snápr, a dolt; Sw. dial. snopp, a boy.]

Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅

  • snob
    A nick name for a shoemaker.

Part of speech

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  • snob, noun, singular of snobs.

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