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Definition: Snob |
SnobNoun1. A person regarded as arrogant and annoying. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "snob" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Snob Not a gentleman; one who arrogates to himself merits which he does not deserve. Thackeray calls George IV. a snob, because he assumed to be "the greatest gentleman in Europe," but had not the genuine stamp of a gentleman's mind. (S privative and nob.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Multilingual Slang | Spanish (pijo). (references) |
Slang in 1811 | SNOB. A nick name for a shoemaker. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SnobSynonyms: prig (n), snot (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Upstart, parvenu, skipjack; nobody, nobody one knows; hesterni quirites, pessoribus orti; bourgeois gentilhomme, novus homo, snob, gent, mushroom, no one knows who, adventurer; man of straw. |
Servility | Sycophant, parasite; toad, toady, toad-eater; tufthunter; snob, flunky, flunkey, yes-man, lapdog, spaniel, lickspittle, smell-feast, Graeculus esuriens, hanger on, cavaliere servente, led captain, carpet knight; timeserver, fortune hunter, Vicar of Bray, Sir-Pertinax, Max Sycophant, pickthank; flatterer; doer of dirty work; ame damnee, tool; reptile; slave; (servant); courtier; beat, dead beat, doughface , heeler, homme de cour, sponger, sucker, tagtail, truckler. |
Vulgarity | Rough diamond, tomboy, hoyden, cub, unlicked cub; clown; (commonalty); Goth, Vandal, Boeotian; snob, cad, gent; parvenu; frump, dowdy; slattern. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Snob |
| English words defined with "snob": Snobling. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "snob": Branghtons ♦ cuico ♦ Dandin ♦ hippie-crit ♦ Nobs and Snobs. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Snob" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Albanian (class conscious, snob, snobbish), Czech (snob), Dutch (snob), French (high hat, pukka, snob, snobbish, stiff), German (snob), Italian (snob, snobbish, snooty), Romanian (dude, flunkey, high-brow, pretentious, snob, squirt), Serbo-Croatian (high hat, snob), Spanish (snob, snobbish, snobby, uppity), Turkish (snob, snobbish). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | You're gonna have a hard time finding a man. You're a snob from the projects (Living Single; writing credit: Lisa Albert; Tom Anderson) The difference between you and me, actor, is you're a snob and I'm not. And the difference between this great lady and myself is that my work is her hobby (I, Claudius; writing credit: Robert Graves; Jack Pulman) Well! Snob Hill (Lady and the Tramp; writing credit: Ward Greene; Erdman Penner) | |
Lyrics | You tell me you'd kill me if I ever snob you out (... On The Radio (Remember The Days); performing artist: Nelly Furtado) You don't have to act like a snob (Kiss Kiss; performing artist: Stella Soleil) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Snob (1958) Snubbed by a Snob (1940) The Little Snob (1928) | |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Elton John | I do like Britney Spears. I think she's cute. I think she's fun. And I like her records. You know, I'm not a pop snob whatsoever. I think she makes great pop records. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Snob" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.40% of the time. "Snob" is used about 111 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.4% | 107 | 31,463 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.8% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.8% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 111 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "snob": he is a bit of a snob. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
snob | 63 |
snob video | 8 |
snob test | 3 |
appeal snob | 3 |
quiz snob | 3 |
club snob | 2 |
magazine snob | 2 |
bike snob | 2 |
snob underwear | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "snob"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | snob (class conscious, snobbish). (various references) | |
Arabic | المقلد (copyist, echo, mimic), المتكبر (proud, stiff), النفاج. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сноб (pseudo). (various references) | |
Czech | snob. (various references) | |
Dutch | snob. (various references) | |
Esperanto | snobo. (various references) | |
Farsi | مغرور (Bigheaded, Haughty, Jaunty, Overbearing, Presumptuous, Proud, Snobbish, Stuffy, Supercilious, Swagger, Uppish, Vain), قلمبه , افاده ای , بابغض شدیدگریستن , برجستگی (Boss, Eminence, Notability, Pone, Prominence, Relieve, Swell, Thread). (various references) | |
Finnish | keikari (dandy, fop), hienostelija (dandy, fop). (various references) | |
French | snob (snobbish). (various references) | |
German | snob. (various references) | |
Greek | σνομπ (snobbish). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מת שא (lofty, lordly, standoffish, stuck up, supercilious, towering), י"יר (arrogant, conceited, haughty, high and mighty, overweening, pompous, popinjay, presumptuous, snooty, snotty, supercilious, swollen), שחצן (arrogant, boastful, conceited, haughty, overbearing, popinjay, presumptuous, smart aleck, snooty, whippersnapper), ס וב. (various references) | |
Hungarian | sznob ember, sznob (snobbish, snobby, snooty). (various references) | |
Italian | snobbare (slight, snub), snob (snobbish, snooty). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 気取り屋 (affected person), 偽君子 (hypocrite), スナック麺 (circlip, snack noodle, snake, snake dance, snakeskin, snap, snap ring, snapshot, snatch, sneak in, sneak out, sneak preview, sneaker, snobbism, snooker, snoopy, snorkel, snow, snow boat, snow gun, snow mobile, snow surfing, snow tire, spark, spark plug, sparkling wine, sparring, sparring partner, spatula, sperm bank, spice, spider, spike, spike heel, spiked shoes, spiker, spiky cut, spiral, spurt, spy, studded snow tire). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ぎく"し (hypocrite), きどりや (affected person), にせく"し (hypocrite), スノッブ . (various references) | |
Manx | fer mooarleaghagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | obsnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | esnobe (snobbish). (various references) | |
Romanian | snob (dude, flunkey, high-brow, pretentious, squirt). (various references) | |
Russian | сноб. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | snob (high hat). (various references) | |
Spanish | esnob (snobbish, snobby). (various references) | |
Swedish | snobb (coxcomb, Dandy, fop, high hat, jackanapes, macaroni, swank, swell, toff). (various references) | |
Thai | คนหัวสูง. (various references) | |
Turkish | snob (snobbish), züppe (adonis, beau, buck, conceited pup, coxcomb, dandified, Dandy, dude, fop, high hat, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, La-di-da, la-di-dah, macaroni, nob, Peacock, petit-maitre, popinjay, pup, puppy, spark, swell, toff). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сноб, вискочка (parvenu, upstart), простолюдин (villein). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trưởng giả học l m sang (vulgarian). (various references) | |
Welsh | crachfonheddwr. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "snob": snobberies, snobbery, snobbier, snobbiest, snobbily, snobbish, snobbishly, snobbishness, snobbishnesses, snobbism, snobbisms, snobby, snobs. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "snob": antisnob. (additional references) | |
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"Snob" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: esnol, gnob, noob, nsub, scob, Seneb, shob, Shobo, snab, snabb, snco, snibe, sno, snoa, snoe, snok, snoob, snoox, snoq, snor, snov, snoz, Snto, snubb, sobb, stob, zno. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "snob" (pronounced snÄ"b) |
| 3 | -n Ä" b | knob. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: nobs. | |
| Words within the letters "b-n-o-s" | |
-1 letter: bos, nob, nos, ons, sob, son. | |
-2 letters: bo, no, on, os, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-n-o-s" | |
+1 letter: bison, bonds, bones, bongs, bonks, bonus, boons, boson, bosun, ebons, knobs, snobs. | |
+2 letters: bacons, bancos, banjos, barons, basion, batons, beanos, besnow, betons, bingos, binocs, bionts, bisons, blonds, bogans, bolson, boners, bongos, bonnes, bonsai, bonzes, borons, bosons, boston, bosuns, bounds, bourns, broncs, browns, buncos, bunkos, dobson, gibson, gobans, nabobs, nobles, robins, snobby, suborn, sunbow. | |
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