snob [ snob ] (plural snobs)
noun
Definition:
1. somebody who looks down on others: an admirer and cultivator of people with high social status who disdains those considered inferior
2. somebody who feels superior: somebody who disdains people considered to have inferior knowledge or tastes
[Late 18th century. Origin ?]
snob·ber·y noun
snob·bism noun
snob·by adjective
Word History
Snob originally meant "shoemaker" (a sense that survives in places). Cambridge University students of the late 18th century adopted it as a slang term for a "townsman, somebody not a member of the university," and it seems to have been this usage that formed the basis in the 1830s for the emergence of a new general sense "member of the lower classes." The modern sense "somebody who admires and cultivates social superiors" received a considerable boost when Thackeray used it in his Book of Snobs (1848). As for the origins of the word itself, the suggestion that it comes from s.nob., short for Latin sine nobilitate "without nobility," is ingenious but ignores the word's early history.
I would just like inspire people to think out of the box and the TV and see the beauty of this world and how we can live in it in a more harmonous and satisfying and tastefull manner. And I intend on delivering some canned soup to your house every tuesday. You can determine the flavor and the brand if you wish. I will not supply the can opener though. Good things tend to come in cans don't you think?
noun
Definition:
1. somebody who looks down on others: an admirer and cultivator of people with high social status who disdains those considered inferior
2. somebody who feels superior: somebody who disdains people considered to have inferior knowledge or tastes
[Late 18th century. Origin ?]
snob·ber·y noun
snob·bism noun
snob·by adjective
Word History
Snob originally meant "shoemaker" (a sense that survives in places). Cambridge University students of the late 18th century adopted it as a slang term for a "townsman, somebody not a member of the university," and it seems to have been this usage that formed the basis in the 1830s for the emergence of a new general sense "member of the lower classes." The modern sense "somebody who admires and cultivates social superiors" received a considerable boost when Thackeray used it in his Book of Snobs (1848). As for the origins of the word itself, the suggestion that it comes from s.nob., short for Latin sine nobilitate "without nobility," is ingenious but ignores the word's early history.
I would just like inspire people to think out of the box and the TV and see the beauty of this world and how we can live in it in a more harmonous and satisfying and tastefull manner. And I intend on delivering some canned soup to your house every tuesday. You can determine the flavor and the brand if you wish. I will not supply the can opener though. Good things tend to come in cans don't you think?
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