Snob Hill

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Blend of snob +‎ Nob Hill.

Proper noun[edit]

Snob Hill

  1. (derogatory, slang) Nob Hill.
    • [2019, Fodor's Travel Guides, Fodor's San Francisco: with the Best of Napa & Sonoma‎[1], Fodor's Travel, →ISBN:
      […] and the hill itself was called Snob Hill, a term that survives to this day. By 1882 so many estates had sprung up on Nob Hill that Robert Louis Stevenson called it “the hill of palaces.”]
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