snob的意思|snob的解释-里氏词典

snob [snɒb]

n. 势利的人, 假内行

snob

[ noun ]
a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
<noun.person>

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.

Essentially vulgar, a snob. -- a gilded snob, but
none the less a snob. --R. G. White.

2. (Eng. Univ.) A townsman. [Canf]

3. A journeyman shoemaker. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.

4. 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.

JP has become a wine snob, and uses the language to dismiss the Nicaragua '89. In the Osborne world there is now an A level in joined-up writing; for GCSEs you do Elton John since nobody has heard of T S Eliot.
Not that I'm a snob.
The alligator also lost its snob appeal with older consumers as Izod shirts turned up in discount stores and counterfeit shirts were hawked on street corners.
In a deranged perversion of the democratic ideal, the dominant notion in some quarters (not all of them young) is that attire appropriate to the place or occasion is the mark of the snob, the affected or the intellectually constipated.
We thought she was a snob, and dim and dull to boot.
Sometimes these are conveyed in epigrammatic flashes: "As a language snob, I judge a person less by the cut of his jib than by the grab of his gab."
Despite such digs, an M.B.A. carries a lot of snob appeal in Japan.
I was such a snob.
"I deal with people who just love the pictures," Dunlay said. "They're not buying for snob appeal, they're not buying them because they're fashionable.
To be sure, she is a snob to boot, but that makes her the more formidable: she knows how to be a snob well.
To be sure, she is a snob to boot, but that makes her the more formidable: she knows how to be a snob well.
Taffner is no cultural snob; by 'a demographic' he means 'the unsophisticated'. And the shorter attention span? That, said Taffner, might not be the audience at all but a function of the cost of air-time.

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