01 n. A vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more fashionable, than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors.
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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.“Essentially vulgar, a snob. -- a gilded snob, but none the less a snob.” — R. G. White.
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A townsman.(Eng. Univ.) [Canf]
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A journeyman shoemaker.[Prov. Eng.]
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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.