EGAVE

snob

About 0.44 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes or of some other elite (such as the masters of a certain craft) and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes, skills, etc. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
    an insufferable snob
  2. noun A cobbler or shoemaker.
  3. noun A member of the lower classes; a commoner.
  4. noun A workman who works for lower wages than his fellows, especially one who will not join a strike (a scab).
  5. noun A townsman, as opposed to a gownsman.

Similar words

prig snot snoot elitist fawner highbrow vulgarian average snobling snobocracy

Often followed by

appeal and who in of is value or as

Word family

snobs

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