snob

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Popularized by William Makepeace Thackeray, Book of Snobs, 1848

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snob (plural snobs)

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  1. (disapproving, informal) A person who seeks to be, or is, a member of the upper classes 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.
    You really are a little snob, aren’t you?
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    • 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Poison Belt
      I tell you, sir, that I have a brain of my own, and that I should feel myself to be a snob and a slave if I did not use it.

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snob m (plural snobs, diminutive snobje)

  1. snob

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From English snob

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snob m (feminine snobe, masculine plural snobs, feminine plural snobes)

  1. snobbish, snobby
    J'suis snob… J'suis snob
    J'suis ravagé par ce microbe
    J'ai des accidents en Jaguar
    Je passe le mois d’août au plumard
    C'est dans les p'tits détails comme ça
    Que l’on est snob ou pas
    J'suis snob… Encor plus snob que tout à l’heure
    Et quand je serai mort
    J'veux un suaire de chez Dior !
    (Boris Vian, J'suis snob, 1954)

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snob m (plural snobs)

  1. snob
    C’est un snob.

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snob m (invariable)

  1. snob

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snob (invariable)

  1. snobbish

Serbo-Croatian [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From English snob.

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snȍb m (Cyrillic spelling сно̏б)

  1. snob

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snob m, (plural: snobi)
snob stem
snoba gen sg
declension pattern chlap
  1. snob