n. A little snob. [ Jocose ] Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Icel. snāpr 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 ]

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n. The quality of being snobbish; snobbishness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a snob; characteristic of, or befitting, a snob; vulgarly pretentious. -- Snob"bish*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. Vulgar affectation or ostentation; mean admiration of mean things; conduct or manners of a snob. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Snobbery. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Snobbish. [ R. ] E. B. Ramsay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Snob + -cracy, as in aristocracy, mobocracy. ] Snobs, collectively. [ Hybrid & Recent ] C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]