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Definition: Snobbish |
SnobbishAdjective1. Befitting or characteristic of those who inclined to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "snobbish" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1877. (references) |
Synonyms: SnobbishSynonyms: clannish (adj), cliquish (adj), clubby (adj), snobby (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Commonalty | Adjective: ignoble, common, mean, low, base, vile, sorry, scrubby, beggarly; below par; no great shakes; (unimportant); homely, homespun; vulgar, low-minded; snobbish. |
Vulgarity | Unkempt. uncombed, untamed, unlicked, unpolished, uncouth; plebeian; incondite; heavy, rude, awkward; homely, homespun, home bred; provincial, countrified, rustic; boorish, clownish; savage, brutish, blackguard, rowdy, snobbish; barbarous, barbaric; Gothic, |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Snobbish |
| English words defined with "snobbish": snobbishly, snootily ♦ toffee-nosed ♦ uppishly. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "snobbish": Snobby. (references) |
| "Snobbish" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 87.10% of the time. "Snobbish" is used about 62 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 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 87.1% | 54 | 46,184 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 9.68% | 6 | 143,867 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.61% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (common) | 1.61% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 62 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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 |
snobbish | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "snobbish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | snob (class conscious, snob). (various references) | |
Arabic | مميز للنفاخ, مغرور (allured, arrogant, cocky, conceited, dazzled, deceived, deluded, fooled, haughty, lured, misled, overweening, popinjay, proud, self-conceited, self-important, vain, vainglorious), متنفج. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | снобски (pseudo, ritzy, snooty, uppish, upstage), превзето интелектуален, превзет (affected, cute, flamboyant, fussy, glossy, histrionic, lackadaisical, mannered, mincing, minikin, namby-pamby, nice, niminy-piminy, old-maidish, pansy, precious, pretentious, pretty, pretty-pretty, priggish, prim, prissy, pseudo, recherche, schoolmistressy, sidy, stuffy). (various references) | |
Chinese | 势利. (various references) | |
Czech | snobský (highbrow, pretentious). (various references) | |
Dutch | snobistisch. (various references) | |
Esperanto | snoba. (various references) | |
Farsi | پرافاده (Bigheaded, Cocksure, Snooty), مغرور (Bigheaded, Haughty, Jaunty, Overbearing, Presumptuous, Proud, Snob, Stuffy, Supercilious, Swagger, Uppish, Vain). (various references) | |
French | snobisme (snobbery, snobbishness), snobinard (snob), snob (snob), crâneur. (various references) | |
German | snobistisch, versnobt (snobby), protzig (ostentatious, ostentatiously, pretentious, ritzy, showy, swank, swanky). (various references) | |
Greek | σνομπ (snob), φαντασμένοσ (bumptious, cocky, conceited, coxcomb, hoity toity, jackanapes, ladida, opinionated, priggish, self-conceited, self-important, smug, snooty, stuck up, stuffed shirt, stuffy), ακατάδεκτοσ (snob, snooty), ψωροπερήφανοσ (bladder, snob). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ס ובי (snooty). (various references) | |
Hungarian | sznob (snob, snobby, snooty). (various references) | |
Italian | snobistico, snob (snob, snooty), borioso (snooty, stuck up). (various references) | |
Manx | mooarleaghagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | obbishsnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | esnobe (snob). (various references) | |
Russian | снобистский (snobby). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | snobovski. (various references) | |
Spanish | sobrador (snob), snob (snob, snobby, uppity), grifo (curly, drunk, faucet, griffin, pot, tap), exclusivista (clannish, cliquish, exclusive, select), esnob (snob, snobby). (various references) | |
Swedish | snobbaktig, dumhögfärdig. (various references) | |
Thai | ซึ่งทำหัวสูง (snobby). (various references) | |
Turkish | snob (snob), züppe tavırlı. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | снобістський (snobby), бундючний (bombastic, cavalier, chilly, cockish, flatulent, haughty, highfalutin, highfaluting, high-hearted, mouth-filling, overly, pompous, puffed up, scenic, scenical, snobby, swollen). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | có tính chất trưởng giả học l m sang, đua đòi. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "snobbish": snobbishly, snobbishness, snobbishnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Snobbish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: snobish, snubbish, sobbish, unboyish. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "snobbish" (pronounced snÄ"bish) |
| 3 | -b i sh | refurbish, rubbish. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-b-h-i-n-o-s-s" | |
-2 letters: bisons. | |
-3 letters: bison, shins, sibbs, sinhs, snibs, snobs. | |
-4 letters: bibs, bins, bios, bobs, bosh, boss, hins, hisn, hiss, hobs, hons, ions, nibs, nobs, nosh, obis, shin, sibb, sibs, sinh, sins, snib, snob, sobs, sons. | |
-5 letters: bib, bin, bio, bis, bob, bos, hin, his, hob, hon, ins, ion, nib, nob, noh, nos, obi, ohs, ons. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-b-h-i-n-o-s-s" | |
+2 letters: snobbishly. | |
+4 letters: ribbonfishes, snobbishness. | |
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