snobn.¹

Brit.

/snɒb/, U.S.

/snɑb/

Forms: Also 1800s Scottish snab.

Etymology: Originally slang, of obscure origin.

a. dialect or colloquial. A shoemaker or cobbler; a cobbler's apprentice.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > shoemaking > shoemaker

souterc1000

cordwainera1100

shoemaker1381

corviser1401

seatsman1719

crispin1721

snob1785

lad of wax1794

shoeman1841

snobber1900

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > processes involved in > repairing or renovating > one who

souterc1000

cobbler1362

botcherc1480

cozier1532

translator1594

underlayer1692

snob1785

snab1797

botch1855

clobberer1864

snobber1900

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > processes involved in > repairing or renovating > one who > apprentice

snob1785

snab1797

α.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Snob, a nick name for a shoemaker.

1819 Sporting Mag. 4 249 Tom Jenkins was known as a cobbler or snob.

1824 W. E. Andrews Crit. & Hist. Rev. Fox's Bk. Martyrs I. 252 Both Snip and Snob were burned for their pains.

1826 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 837 Sir William Blase, a snob by trade.

1880 Fraser's Mag. Nov. 642 Even among the snobs the custom of the trade is against giving credit.

β. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Snab, a cant term for a..cobler's boy.1813 E. Picken Misc. Poems II. 132 To flame as an author our Snab was sae bent.1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xiv. 202 Rory Skirl, the snab, and Geordie Thump, the dyer.1896 W. Harvey Kennethcrook 38 (E.D.D.) He had entered the craft in the usual way by being what the villagers called a ‘snab’.

b. The last sheep to be sheared; hence, the roughest or most difficult sheep to shear; = cobbler n. 1b. Australian and New Zealand slang.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > defined in relation to shearing

rosella1849

woolly1910

catch1933

snob1945

1945 C. E. W. Bean On Wool Track (new ed.) 135 The sheep most difficult to shear, which naturally is left last in the pen, is also called the ‘snob’.

1955 G. Bowen Wool Away! 157 Snob, the last sheep in the pen.

1971 J. S. Gunn Distrib. Shearing Terms New S. Wales 9 As it is the practice to leave rough sheep until last it is only to be expected that snob and cobbler for both ‘rough’ and ‘last’ will occur... Snob and cobbler meant ‘last’ before specialising to ‘rough’.

1975 L. Ryan Shearers i. 49 ‘Get on to this wrinkled bludger!’ he said. It was the last sheep in the pen... ‘Real snob, ain't it?’

†2. Cambridge University slang. Any one not a gownsman; a townsman. Also in American use. Obsolete. (Cf. cad n.⁴ 4.)

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > as opposed to university

townsman1570

oppidana1696

snobc1796

snobbitec1796

townie1843

mucker1874

townee1888

c1796 in C. Whibley In Cap & Gown (1889) 87 Snobs call him Nicholson! Plebeian name.

1828 Sporting Mag. 21 428 A capital front rank of ‘tassells’,..all eager for a ‘slap at a snob’.

1851 B. H. Hall College Words 286 Snob... In some American Colleges, a townsman as opposed to a Student.

1865 Sat. Rev. Sept. 298/2 Happily the annals of Oxford present no instance of a ‘snob’ murdered in the streets.

a. A person belonging to the ordinary or lower social class; one having no pretensions to rank or gentility.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > one of the common people

Jackc1390

fellowa1400

commonerc1400

populara1525

plebeianc1550

ungentle1562

Tom Tiler1582

roturier1586

vulgarity1646

little man1707

pleb1795

man of the people1799

the man in the street1831

snob1831

man1860

oickman1925

1831 Lincoln Herald 22 July 3/6 The nobs have lost their dirty seats—the honest snobs have got 'em.

1834 W. H. Brookfield in F. M. Brookfield Cambridge ‘Apostles’ (1906) iv. 66 Snobs go early [to the Grand Opera, Paris], buy pit tickets.., and beset comers at a quarter past seven to give them 5½ francs for their tickets.

1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk III. 165 In the presence of a tail of snobs who accompanied him on his way.

1852 G. B. Earp Gold Colonies Austral. 9 The majority of the colonists are essentially snobs, and they are justly proud of the distinction.

b. A person who has little or no breeding or good taste; a vulgar or ostentatious person.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > vulgarity > person

vulgarian1809

snob1838

vulgarist1847

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour > person

bearc1395

carter1509

kensy?a1513

clumpertonc1534

club1542

lout1548

clinchpoop1555

clout-shoe1563

loose-breech1575

clown1583

hoyden1593

boor1598

kill-courtesy1600

rustic1600

clunch1602

loblolly1604

camel1609

clusterfist1611

loon1619

Grobian1621

rough diamonda1625

hoyde1636

clodhopper1699

roughhead1726

indelicate1741

vulgarian1809

snob1838

vulgarist1847

yahoo1861

cave-dweller1865

polisson1866

mucker1884

caveman1907

wampus1912

yobbo1922

yenta1923

yob1927

rude1946

cafone1949

no-neck1961

ocker1971

1838 M. M. Sherwood Henry Milner iii. ix. 175 He is a genteel young man—no snob—quite the gentleman.

1843 W. M. Thackeray Irish Sketch-bk. I. x. 203 A vulgar man in England..chiefly displays his character of snob by..swaggering and showing off in his coarse, dull, stupid way.

1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 97 Snob, a low, vulgar..person.

c. A person who admires and seeks to imitate, or associate with, those of higher social status or greater wealth; one who wishes to be regarded as a person of social importance.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [noun] > parvenu or imitator of upper classes

Jack-gentleman1550

truck-knight1625

court-card1699

parvenu1787

cocktail1839

gent1843

shoneena1849

snob1848

shoddyite1865

got-up1881

shoddy1904

1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs i. 5 I mean by positive [Snobs], such persons as are Snobs everywhere,..being by nature endowed with Snobbishness.

1860 H. Mayhew Upper Rhine iv. i. 183 So necessary..are the professional titles considered by the supreme Snob of an authority from whom we quote.

1863 M. E. Braddon John Marchmont's Legacy I. ii. 42 ‘What a snob I am,’ he thought; ‘always bragging of home’.

1882 C. E. L. Riddell Prince of Wales's Garden-party 127 He was..such a snob, he felt pleased his clerks should hear a butler ask for a situation.

d. A person who despises those whom he or she considers to be inferior in rank, attainment, or taste. Frequently in extended sense, with defining word limiting its reference to a particular sphere.Overlaps with sense 3c.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun] > snobbery > snob

snob1911

high hat1923

fancy-pants1930

snoot1941

toffee-nose1943

1911 G. B. Shaw Getting Married in Doctor's Dilemma 228 All her childish affectations of conscientious scruple and religious impulse have been applauded and deferred to until she has become an ethical snob of the first water.

1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby vii. 146 Listen, Tom. If you're such a snob, why did you invite him to lunch?

1931 A. Huxley Music at Night 121 I have met several adolescent consumption-snobs…these ingenuous young tubercle-snobs.

1935 C. Isherwood Mr. Norris changes Trains iv. 58 I rather enjoyed playing with the idea that he was, in fact, a dangerous criminal... Nearly every member of my generation is a crime-snob.

1939 L. MacNeice Autumn Jrnl. xii. 49 Spiritually bankrupt Intellectual snobs.

1959 G. Freeman Jack would be Gentleman iii. 54 God knows, Moyra, I'm not a snob but that sort of person just wouldn't understand.

1960 J. O'Hara Serm. & Soda-water I. 26 He doesn't want to know her any better and neither would my mother. That isn't snobbishness... You're the snob of us two.

1977 T. Heald Just Desserts i. 16 He does..that frightful column in the Chronicle... The wine snob's guide to an early cirrhosis.

e. inverted snob: see inverted snob n. at inverted adj. and n. Compounds.

4. = blackleg n. 4.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > worker according to manner of working > [noun] > striking > refusing to strike

dung1765

scab1777

knobstick1794

leg1815

rat1824

nob1825

black1826

blackneb1832

blacknob1838

knob1839

snob1839

blackleg1844

snob-stick1860

non-striker1868

ratter1890

strike-breaker1904

1839 T. De Quincey Lake Reminiscences in Tait's Edinb. Mag. July 459/1 Those who work for lower wages during a strike are called snobs, the men who stand out being nobs.

5. Used predicatively as adj., fashionable, snobbish, pretentious.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [adjective] > snobbish

airish1842

snobbish1850

head-in-air1888

high hat1924

toffee-nosed1925

snob1958

elitist1966

1958 Spectator 14 Feb. 209/3 A little slower than Buchan, a little less naively snob than Dornford Yates.

1970 Daily Tel. 9 Apr. 17/2 Champagne we consider too snob, and we're all off hard liquor. We drink wine now as an aperitif.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.Other examples occur in Thackeray's Book of Snobs.

snob ambition n.

ΚΠ

a1871 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) II. 189 What of snob ambition there might be in me.

snob jargon n.

ΚΠ

1952 E. Partridge From Sanskrit to Brazil 59 The most dangerous snob jargon of all is that used by ordinarily well-educated..men and women.

snob-land n.

ΚΠ

1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxxii O you pride of all Snobland! O you crawling, truckling..lacqueys and parasites!

snob nature n.

ΚΠ

1883 Congregationalist May 377 The snob nature comes out in strange ways.

snob ore n.

ΚΠ

1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs Pref. 3 It is Beautiful..to sink shafts in society and come upon rich veins of Sno-bore.

snob school n.

ΚΠ

1953 R. Chandler Let. 16 Sept. in Sel. Lett. (1981) 351 If your boy won't behave himself..you can send him to one of the New England snob schools like Groton.

1978 M. Birmingham Sleep in Ditch 113 She'd been married, very young, almost the moment she'd left her snob school.

snob word n.

ΚΠ

1935 A. P. Herbert What a Word! iv. 92 ‘Beginning’ is musical and ‘commencement’ is not. Also, it is a Snob-word.

snob-free adj.

ΚΠ

1961 D. L. Munby God & Rich Society iv. 68 Americans and Scandinavians have a lot to teach us about real social equality and snob-free education.

C2.

snob appeal n. attractiveness to snobs.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun] > snobbery > snob > value or appeal to

snob appeal1933

snob value1936

1933 F. R. Leavis & A. D. H. Thompson Culture & Environment 15 (heading) The snob appeal.

1943 Scrutiny 11 289 There is, of course, the same snob-appeal, and just as Mr. Richards is always introducing a Shakespearean phrase.., so Jeeves is always quoting Pope.

1958 M. Dickens Man Overboard xii. 192 There's a snob appeal about having a retired officer as bursar.

1978 J. Pearson Façades vii. 127 Osbert and Edith [Sitwell]..had inherited..style; their snob appeal was undeniable.

snob-stick n. = sense 4 (cf. knobstick n. 2).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > worker according to manner of working > [noun] > striking > refusing to strike

dung1765

scab1777

knobstick1794

leg1815

rat1824

nob1825

black1826

blackneb1832

blacknob1838

knob1839

snob1839

blackleg1844

snob-stick1860

non-striker1868

ratter1890

strike-breaker1904

1860 Slang Dict. 221 Snob-stick, a workman who refuses to join in strikes, or trade unions.

snob value n. value as a commodity prized by snobs or as an indication of superiority.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun] > snobbery > snob > value or appeal to

snob appeal1933

snob value1936

1936 Proc. Inst. Automobile Engineers 30 762 Generally, if the big luxury car leads with any new refinement sooner or later the lower and lowest-priced cars follow, the new feature acquires from its aristocratic origin what has been aptly termed ‘snob-value’.

1955 T. H. Pear Eng. Social Differences 131 The terms of normal psychology have never achieved snob-value.

1969 M. Fish in A. S. C. Ross What are U? 78 It was an example of faulty handcraft giving a snob value to a product that could have been made more efficiently by machine.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	snob
释义	snobn.¹ Brit. /snɒb/, U.S. /snɑb/ Forms: Also 1800s Scottish snab. Etymology: Originally slang, of obscure origin. 1. a. dialect or colloquial. A shoemaker or cobbler; a cobbler's apprentice. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > shoemaking > shoemaker souterc1000 cordwainera1100 shoemaker1381 corviser1401 seatsman1719 crispin1721 snob1785 lad of wax1794 shoeman1841 snobber1900 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > processes involved in > repairing or renovating > one who souterc1000 cobbler1362 botcherc1480 cozier1532 translator1594 underlayer1692 snob1785 snab1797 botch1855 clobberer1864 snobber1900 the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > processes involved in > repairing or renovating > one who > apprentice snob1785 snab1797 α. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Snob, a nick name for a shoemaker. 1819 Sporting Mag. 4 249 Tom Jenkins was known as a cobbler or snob. 1824 W. E. Andrews Crit. & Hist. Rev. Fox's Bk. Martyrs I. 252 Both Snip and Snob were burned for their pains. 1826 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1827) II. 837 Sir William Blase, a snob by trade. 1880 Fraser's Mag. Nov. 642 Even among the snobs the custom of the trade is against giving credit. β. 1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Snab, a cant term for a..cobler's boy.1813 E. Picken Misc. Poems II. 132 To flame as an author our Snab was sae bent.1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xiv. 202 Rory Skirl, the snab, and Geordie Thump, the dyer.1896 W. Harvey Kennethcrook 38 (E.D.D.) He had entered the craft in the usual way by being what the villagers called a ‘snab’. b. The last sheep to be sheared; hence, the roughest or most difficult sheep to shear; = cobbler n. 1b. Australian and New Zealand slang. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > defined in relation to shearing rosella1849 woolly1910 catch1933 snob1945 1945 C. E. W. Bean On Wool Track (new ed.) 135 The sheep most difficult to shear, which naturally is left last in the pen, is also called the ‘snob’. 1955 G. Bowen Wool Away! 157 Snob, the last sheep in the pen. 1971 J. S. Gunn Distrib. Shearing Terms New S. Wales 9 As it is the practice to leave rough sheep until last it is only to be expected that snob and cobbler for both ‘rough’ and ‘last’ will occur... Snob and cobbler meant ‘last’ before specialising to ‘rough’. 1975 L. Ryan Shearers i. 49 ‘Get on to this wrinkled bludger!’ he said. It was the last sheep in the pen... ‘Real snob, ain't it?’ †2. Cambridge University slang. Any one not a gownsman; a townsman. Also in American use. Obsolete. (Cf. cad n.⁴ 4.) ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > town- or city-dweller > [noun] > as opposed to university townsman1570 oppidana1696 snobc1796 snobbitec1796 townie1843 mucker1874 townee1888 c1796 in C. Whibley In Cap & Gown (1889) 87 Snobs call him Nicholson! Plebeian name. 1828 Sporting Mag. 21 428 A capital front rank of ‘tassells’,..all eager for a ‘slap at a snob’. 1851 B. H. Hall College Words 286 Snob... In some American Colleges, a townsman as opposed to a Student. 1865 Sat. Rev. Sept. 298/2 Happily the annals of Oxford present no instance of a ‘snob’ murdered in the streets. 3. a. A person belonging to the ordinary or lower social class; one having no pretensions to rank or gentility. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > [noun] > one of the common people Jackc1390 fellowa1400 commonerc1400 populara1525 plebeianc1550 ungentle1562 Tom Tiler1582 roturier1586 vulgarity1646 little man1707 pleb1795 man of the people1799 the man in the street1831 snob1831 man1860 oickman1925 1831 Lincoln Herald 22 July 3/6 The nobs have lost their dirty seats—the honest snobs have got 'em. 1834 W. H. Brookfield in F. M. Brookfield Cambridge ‘Apostles’ (1906) iv. 66 Snobs go early [to the Grand Opera, Paris], buy pit tickets.., and beset comers at a quarter past seven to give them 5½ francs for their tickets. 1841 J. T. J. Hewlett Parish Clerk III. 165 In the presence of a tail of snobs who accompanied him on his way. 1852 G. B. Earp Gold Colonies Austral. 9 The majority of the colonists are essentially snobs, and they are justly proud of the distinction. b. A person who has little or no breeding or good taste; a vulgar or ostentatious person. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > lack of refinement > [noun] > vulgarity > person vulgarian1809 snob1838 vulgarist1847 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > [noun] > unmannerliness > unrefined manners or behaviour > person bearc1395 carter1509 kensy?a1513 clumpertonc1534 club1542 lout1548 clinchpoop1555 clout-shoe1563 loose-breech1575 clown1583 hoyden1593 boor1598 kill-courtesy1600 rustic1600 clunch1602 loblolly1604 camel1609 clusterfist1611 loon1619 Grobian1621 rough diamonda1625 hoyde1636 clodhopper1699 roughhead1726 indelicate1741 vulgarian1809 snob1838 vulgarist1847 yahoo1861 cave-dweller1865 polisson1866 mucker1884 caveman1907 wampus1912 yobbo1922 yenta1923 yob1927 rude1946 cafone1949 no-neck1961 ocker1971 1838 M. M. Sherwood Henry Milner iii. ix. 175 He is a genteel young man—no snob—quite the gentleman. 1843 W. M. Thackeray Irish Sketch-bk. I. x. 203 A vulgar man in England..chiefly displays his character of snob by..swaggering and showing off in his coarse, dull, stupid way. 1859 J. C. Hotten Dict. Slang 97 Snob, a low, vulgar..person. c. A person who admires and seeks to imitate, or associate with, those of higher social status or greater wealth; one who wishes to be regarded as a person of social importance. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > [noun] > parvenu or imitator of upper classes Jack-gentleman1550 truck-knight1625 court-card1699 parvenu1787 cocktail1839 gent1843 shoneena1849 snob1848 shoddyite1865 got-up1881 shoddy1904 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs i. 5 I mean by positive [Snobs], such persons as are Snobs everywhere,..being by nature endowed with Snobbishness. 1860 H. Mayhew Upper Rhine iv. i. 183 So necessary..are the professional titles considered by the supreme Snob of an authority from whom we quote. 1863 M. E. Braddon John Marchmont's Legacy I. ii. 42 ‘What a snob I am,’ he thought; ‘always bragging of home’. 1882 C. E. L. Riddell Prince of Wales's Garden-party 127 He was..such a snob, he felt pleased his clerks should hear a butler ask for a situation. d. A person who despises those whom he or she considers to be inferior in rank, attainment, or taste. Frequently in extended sense, with defining word limiting its reference to a particular sphere.Overlaps with sense 3c. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun] > snobbery > snob snob1911 high hat1923 fancy-pants1930 snoot1941 toffee-nose1943 1911 G. B. Shaw Getting Married in Doctor's Dilemma 228 All her childish affectations of conscientious scruple and religious impulse have been applauded and deferred to until she has become an ethical snob of the first water. 1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby vii. 146 Listen, Tom. If you're such a snob, why did you invite him to lunch? 1931 A. Huxley Music at Night 121 I have met several adolescent consumption-snobs…these ingenuous young tubercle-snobs. 1935 C. Isherwood Mr. Norris changes Trains iv. 58 I rather enjoyed playing with the idea that he was, in fact, a dangerous criminal... Nearly every member of my generation is a crime-snob. 1939 L. MacNeice Autumn Jrnl. xii. 49 Spiritually bankrupt Intellectual snobs. 1959 G. Freeman Jack would be Gentleman iii. 54 God knows, Moyra, I'm not a snob but that sort of person just wouldn't understand. 1960 J. O'Hara Serm. & Soda-water I. 26 He doesn't want to know her any better and neither would my mother. That isn't snobbishness... You're the snob of us two. 1977 T. Heald Just Desserts i. 16 He does..that frightful column in the Chronicle... The wine snob's guide to an early cirrhosis. e. inverted snob: see inverted snob n. at inverted adj. and n. Compounds. 4. = blackleg n. 4. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > worker according to manner of working > [noun] > striking > refusing to strike dung1765 scab1777 knobstick1794 leg1815 rat1824 nob1825 black1826 blackneb1832 blacknob1838 knob1839 snob1839 blackleg1844 snob-stick1860 non-striker1868 ratter1890 strike-breaker1904 1839 T. De Quincey Lake Reminiscences in Tait's Edinb. Mag. July 459/1 Those who work for lower wages during a strike are called snobs, the men who stand out being nobs. 5. Used predicatively as adj., fashionable, snobbish, pretentious. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [adjective] > snobbish airish1842 snobbish1850 head-in-air1888 high hat1924 toffee-nosed1925 snob1958 elitist1966 1958 Spectator 14 Feb. 209/3 A little slower than Buchan, a little less naively snob than Dornford Yates. 1970 Daily Tel. 9 Apr. 17/2 Champagne we consider too snob, and we're all off hard liquor. We drink wine now as an aperitif. Compounds C1. General attributive.Other examples occur in Thackeray's Book of Snobs. a. snob ambition n. ΚΠ a1871 T. Carlyle Reminisc. (1881) II. 189 What of snob ambition there might be in me. snob jargon n. ΚΠ 1952 E. Partridge From Sanskrit to Brazil 59 The most dangerous snob jargon of all is that used by ordinarily well-educated..men and women. snob-land n. ΚΠ 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs xxxii O you pride of all Snobland! O you crawling, truckling..lacqueys and parasites! snob nature n. ΚΠ 1883 Congregationalist May 377 The snob nature comes out in strange ways. snob ore n. ΚΠ 1848 W. M. Thackeray Bk. Snobs Pref. 3 It is Beautiful..to sink shafts in society and come upon rich veins of Sno-bore. snob school n. ΚΠ 1953 R. Chandler Let. 16 Sept. in Sel. Lett. (1981) 351 If your boy won't behave himself..you can send him to one of the New England snob schools like Groton. 1978 M. Birmingham Sleep in Ditch 113 She'd been married, very young, almost the moment she'd left her snob school. snob word n. ΚΠ 1935 A. P. Herbert What a Word! iv. 92 ‘Beginning’ is musical and ‘commencement’ is not. Also, it is a Snob-word. b. snob-free adj. ΚΠ 1961 D. L. Munby God & Rich Society iv. 68 Americans and Scandinavians have a lot to teach us about real social equality and snob-free education. C2. snob appeal n. attractiveness to snobs. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun] > snobbery > snob > value or appeal to snob appeal1933 snob value1936 1933 F. R. Leavis & A. D. H. Thompson Culture & Environment 15 (heading) The snob appeal. 1943 Scrutiny 11 289 There is, of course, the same snob-appeal, and just as Mr. Richards is always introducing a Shakespearean phrase.., so Jeeves is always quoting Pope. 1958 M. Dickens Man Overboard xii. 192 There's a snob appeal about having a retired officer as bursar. 1978 J. Pearson Façades vii. 127 Osbert and Edith [Sitwell]..had inherited..style; their snob appeal was undeniable. snob-stick n. = sense 4 (cf. knobstick n. 2). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > worker according to manner of working > [noun] > striking > refusing to strike dung1765 scab1777 knobstick1794 leg1815 rat1824 nob1825 black1826 blackneb1832 blacknob1838 knob1839 snob1839 blackleg1844 snob-stick1860 non-striker1868 ratter1890 strike-breaker1904 1860 Slang Dict. 221 Snob-stick, a workman who refuses to join in strikes, or trade unions. snob value n. value as a commodity prized by snobs or as an indication of superiority. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > pretension to superiority > [noun] > snobbery > snob > value or appeal to snob appeal1933 snob value1936 1936 Proc. Inst. Automobile Engineers 30 762 Generally, if the big luxury car leads with any new refinement sooner or later the lower and lowest-priced cars follow, the new feature acquires from its aristocratic origin what has been aptly termed ‘snob-value’. 1955 T. H. Pear Eng. Social Differences 131 The terms of normal psychology have never achieved snob-value. 1969 M. Fish in A. S. C. Ross What are U? 78 It was an example of faulty handcraft giving a snob value to a product that could have been made more efficiently by machine. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). snobn.² Brit. /snɒb/, U.S. /snɑb/ Etymology: Of obscure origin. A game of cricket played with a soft ball and a thick stick in lieu of a bat. In full, snob-cricket. ? Now obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > [noun] > forms of cricket single-wicket1735 single-hand cricket1761 double wicket1778 county cricket1855 snob1888 stump cricket1888 tip-and-run1891 stump1903 French cricket1907 Twenty202002 1888 A. Lang in A. G. Steel & R. H. Lyttelton Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) i. 1 There is a sport known at some schools as ‘stump-cricket’, ‘snob-cricket’, or..‘Dex’. 1892 Daily News 6 May 5/2 They are subject to very dangerous accidents at cricket, and might well confine themselves to ‘snob’. 1893 J. W. Baines in A. G. Bradley et al. Hist. Marlborough Coll. xxii. 220 The great thing was ‘Snob’ cricket, which speedily became a most popular and fashionable pursuit. 1894 Daily News 10 May 6/1 Snob, or stump cricket, is indeed an excellent game. 1901 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 490/2 The game known as ‘snob-cricket’, little cricket, ‘stump-and-ball’, and so forth, might be introduced. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). snobv.¹ Forms: Also Middle English snobbe. Etymology: Imitative. Now dialect. intransitive. To sob. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > weep [verb (intransitive)] > sob yesklOE soba1200 snobc1300 yeskenc1450 throb1557 snub1621 sike1841 c1300 Old Age vii, in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 149 I snurpe, i snobbe, i sneipe on snovte. a1380 St. Ambrose 940 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 23 He wept and snobbed and ofte abreid. c1420 Chron. Vilod. 1865 He with sore sykyng & snobbyng bothe Vnswered þe monke. c1420 Chron. Vilod. 1986 Þus ladyes alle..snobbedone & sykedone fulle sore. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Lament. iii. 56 Turne thou not awei thin eere fro my sobbyng [v.r. snobbyng] and cries. 18.. in Eng. Dial. Dict. (at cited word) She neither sighed, nor snobbed, nor spoke, nor nothing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † snobv.² Etymology: ? variant of snub v.¹ Compare snobberly adv. Obsolete. rare. intransitive. To gird at something. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > criticize [verb (transitive)] > captiously upbraidc1290 bite1330 to gnap at1533 carp1550 cavil1581 carp1587 to pick at ——1603 to pick a hole (also holes) in1614 yark1621 vellicate1633 to peck at1641 snob1654 ploat1757 to get at ——1803 crab1819 to pick up1846 knock1892 snark1904 kvetchc1950 to pick nits1978 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. vi. 107 A few words being spoken to Sancho, snobbing at his Insensiblenesse. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.¹1785n.²1888v.¹c1300v.²1654
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