snob

See also Snob

English

Etymology

Popularized by William Makepeace Thackeray, Book of Snobs, 1848

Pronunciation

• enPR: snŏb, IPA: /snɒb/, X-SAMPA: /snQb/
• Rhymes: -ɒb

Noun

snob (plural snobs)

Wikipedia

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.

Derived terms

• snobbery
• snobbish
• snobby

Translations

person who seeks to be a member of the upper classes

• Arabic: متعالي (ar) (muta3alii) m

  Egyptian Arabic: متعالي (muta3alii)

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 勢利的人, 势利的人 (shìlì de rén)

• Czech: snob (cs) m
• Danish: snob (da) c
• Dutch: snob (nl) m and f
• Finnish: snobi (fi)
• French: snob (fr) m and f
• German: Snob (de) m, Wichtigtuer (de) m, Schnösel (de) m, Schickimicki (de) m
• Greek: σνομπ (el) (snob) m and f, ψηλομύτης (el) (psilomítis) m, ακατάδεκτος (el) (akatádhektos) m
• Hebrew: סנוב (he) (snob) m
• Hungarian: sznob (hu)

• Icelandic: snobb (is) n
• Italian: snob (it) m and f
• Japanese: スノッブ (ja) (sunobbu)
• Maltese: pepè, mnieħru mxammar m, mnieħirha mxammar f
• Persian: فخرفروشی
• Romanian: snob (ro) m
• Russian: сноб (ru) (snob) m, зазнайка (ru) (zaznájka) m
• Scottish Gaelic: sodalan (gd) m
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сноб (sh) m

  Roman: snob (sh) m

• Slovak: snob (sk) m
• Spanish: esnob m and f, fresa f (Mexico), pijo m, pituco (es) m, siútico (es)
• Swedish: snobb (sv) c

Anagrams

• bo's'n
• nobs

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Dutch

Noun

snob m (plural snobs, diminutive snobje)

1. snob

Anagrams

• bons

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French

Etymology

From English snob

Adjective

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)

Noun

snob m (plural snobs)

1. snob

   C’est un snob.

Derived terms

• snober
• snobinard
• snobisme
• snobissime

Anagrams

• bons

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Italian

Etymology

English

Noun

snob m (invariable)

1. snob

Adjective

snob (invariable)

1. snobbish

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From English snob.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /snôb/

Noun

snȍb m (Cyrillic spelling сно̏б)

1. snob

Declension

    declension of snob

	singular	plural
nominative	snȍb	snòbovi
genitive	snoba	snobova
dative	snobu	snobovima
accusative	snoba	snobove
vocative	snobe	snobovi
locative	snobu	snobovima
instrumental	snobom	snobovima

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Slovak

Noun

snob m, (plural: snobi)

snob stem

snoba gen sg

declension pattern chlap

1. snob