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snob 音标拼音: [sn'ɑb] n. 势利的人,假内行 势利的人,假内行 snob n 1: a person regarded as arrogant and annoying [ synonym: { snob}, { prig}, { snot}, { snoot}] Snob \ Snob\, n. [ Icel. sn[= a] pr a dolt, impostor, charlatan. Cf. { Snub}.] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Essentially vulgar, a snob. -- a gilded snob, but none the less a snob. -- R. G. White. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Eng. Univ.) A townsman. [ Canf] [ 1913 Webster] 3. A journeyman shoemaker. [ Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell. [ 1913 Webster] 4. A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick. [ 1913 Webster] Those who work for lower wages during a strike are called snobs, the men who stand out being " nobs" -- De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster] [ 1913 Webster] 20 Moby Thesaurus words for " snob": Brahmin, bootlicker, cold- shoulder, cut, egghead, elitist, hanger- on, high- hat, highbrow, lickspittle, mandarin, name- dropper, ostracize, prig, snoot, snot, snub, sycophant, toady, tufthunter
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