Pronunciation : Snob
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [Icel. snapr a dolt, impostor, charlatan. Cf. Snub.]
Definition : 1. A vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors. Thackeray. Essentially vulgar, a snob. -- a gilded snob, but none the less a snob. R. G. White.
2. (Eng. Univ.)
Defn: A townsman. [Canf]
3. A journeyman shoemaker. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.
4. A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick. Those who work for lower wages during a strike are called snobs, the men who stand out being "nobs" De Quincey.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913