Crossword clues for snob
snob
- Self-important one
- Pretentious type
- Pretentious person
- Highfalutin type
- Condescending person
- Stiff neck
- Sort of elitist
- Smugly superior type
- Person who looks down on others
- Person putting on airs
- Patronizing pain
- Patronizing one
- One who looks down a lot?
- Name-dropper, often
- Lah-di-dah type
- Holier-than-thou sort
- Hoity-toity hoi polloi annoyer
- Highfalutin sort
- Highbrow, perhaps
- Hard-to-approach type, perhaps
- Contemptuous connoisseur
- Conceited sort
- Conceited one
- Clique member, often
- ''I'm better than you'' sort
- __ appeal
- Would-be socialite
- Wine or beer "expert"
- Wine ___
- Vinyl collector, stereotypically
- Supercilious soul
- Stuck up sort
- Stuck up one
- Stereotypical SXSW attendee
- Stereotypical status seeker
- Stereotypical socialite
- Stereotypical "Dahling!" speaker
- Start to appeal?
- Standoffish person
- Someone whose taste is obviously so much better than yours, duh
- Someone who's snooty
- Someone who only watches Swedish cinema and eats grass-fed beef, probably
- Socially superior sort
- Smug expert
- Self-styled superior
- Self-important type
- Self-appointed expert
- Selective socializer, perhaps
- Reverse ___ (one who shuns social standing)
- Relative of the social climber
- Record-store clerk, stereotypically
- Posturing type
- Posturing person
- Pooh-pooher of the provincial
- Pissing contest participant
- Person with social pretensions
- Person who acts superior
- Person looking down their nose
- One with highbrow tastes, probably
- One with her nose in the air
- One with "superior" taste
- One whose opinions are better than yours
- One who mocks the masses, say
- One who looks down on lowbrow culture
- One who feels socially superior
- One who "meanly admires mean things," per Thackeray
- One quick to pass judgment
- One overcome with his own importance
- One looking down on you?
- One frequently looking down
- One for whom social status matters
- One for whom nothing's good enough
- One claiming to be above the unwashed masses
- Nothing's good enough for him
- Nose-in-air sort
- La-di-da sort
- Kitsch deplorer
- Kind of wine drinker who might remark "I'm getting hints of unripened banana"
- Kin of a social climber
- Judger of taste
- Individual with social insecurity
- Indie music fan, stereotypically
- I'm-better-than-you type
- Highfalutin person
- Highbrow person
- High-and-mighty person
- Haughty individual
- Expensive beer chaser?
- Exclusive one
- Dude with a 'tude
- Disdaining one
- Disdainful upperclassman?
- Disdainful sort
- Condescending expert
- Condescending connoisseur
- Cocktail party irritant
- Climber of a sort
- Classist type
- Class-conscious type?
- Class-conscious person
- Class conscious one
- Certain kind of appeal
- Boston Brahmin
- Beer or wine "expert"
- Beer ___ (tavern pontificator)
- Arty type, maybe
- Affected type
- "The Would-be-Gentleman."
- "I'm better than you" type of person
- Elitist, in a way
- Lordly one
- Kind of appeal
- Snooty one
- Tuft-hunter
- Condescending type
- Uppity one
- Patronizing person
- Stereotyped Beverly Hills resident
- For whom nothing's good enough
- High-hatter
- Haughty one
- Snooty sort
- Climber, of a sort
- Stuck-up sort
- Hard-to-approach sort
- *Disdain ... rank ... high-hat
- Name-dropper, maybe
- Sniffish sort
- Hoity-toity one
- One not associating with the likes of you?
- Supercilious sort
- Thurston Howell type
- Nose-in-the-air type
- Uppity type
- Judgment passer, perhaps
- One whose nose is in the air
- Hoi polloi disdainer
- Snooty person
- Toffee-nosed type
- One with a turned-up nose
- Many an egotist
- Belittling sort
- Pretentious sort
- "Superior" one
- Social-climbing type
- One looking down on the "little people"
- Superior sort?
- Hoity-toity type
- Look-down-one's-nose type
- Name-dropper, perhaps
- "He who meanly admires mean things," per Thackeray
- One who's always looking down
- Uppity sort
- Better-than-you type
- One not socializing much with hoi polloi
- Hardly the hoi polloi type
- One never stooping
- One who's beyond picky
- Elitist sort
- Hoity-toity sort
- 11-Down sort
- A person regarded as arrogant and annoying
- Smug one
- Fawning admirer
- One with a superiority complex
- Brahmin
- Supercilious one
- ___ appeal
- Uppity person
- Name-dropping sort
- Pretentious one
- One with a nose in the air
- Hoity-toity person
- One lacking noblesse oblige
- High-hat person
- One pretending social importance
- Social climber, often
- Parvenu
- Supercilious person
- Upstart
- Haughty person
- Cricketlike game
- Smugly superior person
- Elitist initially seemed nervous over background
- One attaching importance to social position
- Stuck-up person
- Stuck-up one
- Shoemaker, one who behaves condescendingly
- Bass about soprano: "Flipping stuck-up sort"
- Stuffed shirt
- Haughty type
- Nose-in-the-air sort
- Nose-in-air type
- Haughty sort
- Condescending sort
- Condescending one
- Unpleasant person
- Pompous one
- Arrogant one
- Holier-than-thou type
- Arrogant person
- Thurston Howell III type
- Persnickety one
- Arrogant sort
- High-and-mighty sort
- Persnickety sort
- Conceited person
- "I'm better than you" sort
- Social bigot
- Snooty type
- One on a high horse
- One often looking down?
- Wine ___ (oenophile, often)
- Type of appeal
- Snooty fellow
- One putting on airs
- One looking down on others
- High-and-mighty type
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snob \Snob\, n. [Icel. sn[=a]pr a dolt, impostor, charlatan. Cf. Snub.]
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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. (Eng. Univ.) A townsman. [Canf]
A journeyman shoemaker. [Prov. Eng.]
--Halliwell.-
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1781, "a shoemaker, a shoemaker's apprentice," of unknown origin. It came to be used in Cambridge University slang c.1796, often contemptuously, for "townsman, local merchant," and passed then into literary use, where by 1831 it was being used for "person of the ordinary or lower classes." Meaning "person who vulgarly apes his social superiors" is by 1843, popularized 1848 by William Thackeray's "Book of Snobs." The meaning later broadened to include those who insist on their gentility, in addition to those who merely aspire to it, and by 1911 the word had its main modern sense of "one who despises those considered inferior in rank, attainment, or taste."
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context colloquial English) A cobbler or shoemaker. (from 18th c.) 2 (context dated English) A member of the lower classes; a commoner. (from 19th c.) 3 (context informal English) A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes. (from 20th c.)
WordNet
Wikipedia
A snob is a pejorative term for a person who believes there is a correlation between social status and human worth. The term also refers to a person who judges, stigmatizes others and believes that some people are inherently inferior to others result from the perception of beliefs, values, intellect, creativity, talent, wealth, occupation, education, ancestry, ethnicity, power, religion, physical strength, class, taste, beauty, nationality, and fame.
Usage examples of "snob".
Ilna had continued to employ Mistress Kaline after Merota became her ward, in part because the stern old snob did in her way truly love the child, but also because Ilna was more afraid of her own power than she was of anything else in this world or beyond it.
When Christ at a symbolic moment was establishing His great society, He chose for its comer-stone neither the brilliant Paul nor the mystic John, but a shuffler, a snob a coward--in a word, a man.
There, in the eyes of his former compadres, he was apotheosized from a rural campesino into a nuevo rico who claimed he could buy the entire landscape of his birth, its petty aristocrats, snobs and bigwigs thrown in for good measure.
Yet so overpowering is the moral domination of the born aristocrat over the born snob, that the Baroness changed her mind, and humbly took the obnoxious tray away and set it down on another table near the door.
Mary was all right, even if she was a bit of a snob, Nuala was a mouthy bitch, but she was a good girl all the same.
I might also remind you, silly snob that you are, that she is not only accepted by those ridiculous nitwits in so-called high society, whom you have the desire to kowtow to constantly, but is assiduously courted by them.
Sadly his Aunt Edwina was inflexible and sour, tense and standoffish, a dyed-in-the-wool snob whose basic values were quite alien to him.
If wanting to work with the Marshall Stones and the Bert Hanrattys of the world is snobbery, then I am a snob.
As far as Amanda was concerned, her mother was a snob, and her theory was hogwash.
Came busmen, snobs, and Earls, And ugly men in bowler hats With charming little girls.
And one thing no one could say about the Julius Caesars, that they were snobs.
From London's houses, huts and flats, Came busmen, snobs, and Earls, And ugly men in bowler hats With charming little girls.
Hal wonders, not for the first time, whether he might deep down be a secret snob about collar-color issues and Pemulis, then whether the fact that he's capable of wondering whether he's a snob attenuates the possibility that he's really a snob.
For the most part, he was a horse's ass and a snob, but there was no doubt he doted on his daughter.
Max thinks Benton, whose name he does not know, is a wacko intellectual snob, probably a professor at Harvard or MIT, and a humorless one at that.