(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.
(n.) A townsman.
(n.) A journeyman shoemaker.
(n.) A workman who accepts lower than the usual wages, or who refuses to strike when his fellows do; a rat; a knobstick.
Example Sentences:
(1) Iain Duncan Smith and Chris Grayling breached all those, absurdly calling objectors 'job snobs'.
(2) This will be proof for many that Nick Clegg is indeed a latte-sipping, windsurfing, arugula [rocket]-munching Euro-snob.
(3) While Liz won new admirers with her stiff upper cleavage and bloke-dismissal skills, super-snob Sally plumbed new depths of irritation.
(4) But Debo was never a serious snob, considering class an irritant: "The biggest pest that has ever been invented".
(5) In Manhattan, she is cast as a pretentious, irksome snob of a journalist.
(6) Can't believe I study with such sexist, homophobic, snobs.
(7) At the time, to me, it was the sort of thing snobs did.
(8) For this is one of the defining characteristics of the true British food snob: a conviction that our high street food culture is vulgar and awful , that it's a slurry pit of overwhelming choice underpinned by little in the way of values or conviction or tradition, which only encourages gastronomic deviants like the Christopher Pooles of this world.
(9) A detour into the bank of Blair Bishop has a common touch seldom associated with ex-Footlights comics: it's a brand of trad standup that pleases a mass audience, but it can alienate comedy snobs.
(10) How on earth do we end up with a challenge to this awful government's attack on the welfare system ( Back to work schemes broke law, court rules , 13 February) coming from a "self-described reticent and shy woman" sent to work for free at Poundland ( 'I'm no job snob.
(11) Perry is too self-aware not to realise that, for all his protestations about representing the middle ground, he’s still a bit of an art snob at heart.
(12) It sold nearly 3m copies and established Franzen as one of the leading literary voices of his generation, but, thanks to his perceived snub to Winfrey, it also established his reputation as, variously, an "ego-blinded snob" (Boston Globe), a "pompous prick" (Newsweek) and a "spoiled, whiny little brat" (Chicago Tribune).
(13) Hal Cruttenden: Tough Luvvie, On tour There’s a particular, peculiar tradition of British comedy that Hal Cruttenden neatly fits into: the camp comic who’s also a snob.
(14) His father wasn't a snob in these matters, nor in the larger matter of his son's desire to be an actor.
(15) Although I laugh in the face of "kitchen suppers", I must admit that I'm quite the snob when it comes to dinner.
(16) In an article in the Russian publication Snob, three psychiatrists criticised the sentence and the prosecution's argument that Kosenko has a dangerous form of schizophrenia.
(17) He did pop music but you could be a fan of Prince and not have to give up any of your alternative scene, you could still be a snob.
(18) Not so long ago, I believed that anything that helped broaden interest in current art was to be welcomed; that only an elitist snob would want art to be confined to a worthy group of aficionados.
(19) Challenging those who see the Conservatives as the party of snobs and the rich, he will say: "There is nothing complicated about me.
(20) Twitter trolls urge boycott of Star Wars over black character Read more Another way to hate Star Wars over diversity is what might be called “the snob way”.
Snog
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I hope she is alluding not to a head-butt but to John Barrowman’s cheeky wee snog with a male dancer during the opening performance of the Commonwealth Games, which has led to a revised definition of the term – one that reflects the modern, friendly and tolerant city that Glasgow really is.
(2) In the media, Stem graduates are portrayed as geeky, unimaginative people who find it hard to get a snog.
(3) I suspect a lot of people will write Kim Kardashian’s Hollywood off as a vacuous game about a vacuous person, using a cynical business model that preys on stupid players who wouldn’t know a “proper game” if it snogged them on the pillion.
(4) The most insidiously evil programme on the schedule – Snog, Marry, Avoid – claims to encourage young women to realise that they don't need implants and hair extensions "for confidence", but actually tells them to lose their individualism, dresses them as Duchess of Cambridge clones and claims the transformation has been successful if it means that more men are attracted to them post-makeover.
(5) It was weird for me, too – seeing them at the altar rail, knowing that we'd been snogging the night before.
(6) Although BBC3 shows such as Snog Marry Avoid have proved controversial, BBC3 has acted as a seed bed for new talent and ideas.
(7) The air smells clean and salty, families natter about everything and nothing, lapdogs snap, an earnest student sketches another earnest student, young lovers gently snog and strangers strike up friendships.
(8) "They talked, incomprehensibly, about "focused subgenre slates", which turned out to be management b******s for cutting edge tripe like Snog, Marry, Avoid.
(9) The ever vigilant Gawker users have remarked on the increase in stories like this one about Greece as well as the more traditional video clips of Miley Cyrus apparently snogging a woman It was endless videos of people throwing buckets of ice over their heads, a phenomenon which drove enormous amounts of traffic to Gawker last year, that finally prompted the change of heart.
(10) He then blew up a drug lord's laboratory, peeled off his wetsuit to reveal an immaculate white DJ, snogged an exotic dancer, clocked in her eyeballs the reflection of a bad guy sneaking up behind them, tipped said bad guy into the bathtub, threw an electric heater in after him, and quipped: "Shocking, positively shocking!"
(11) And, indeed, there aren't a lot here: meet, barbie, banter, snog.
(12) There aren't many people who can say they've been snogged by a hummingbird!
(13) At the time, she had a crush on a youth team player – "I fancied the pants off him; I think I might have snogged him once" – so she confided in her mother that she thought it might be him.
(14) Two can play the name dropping game - a friend of Small Talk's once snogged the lead singer of My Life Story.
(15) There is plenty of romance and the odd bit of snogging throughout the basement bar and upstairs cafe, but you are as likely to see lone customers with their laptops, relaxing after a workout at the gym, and couples dropping in after a day's shopping.
(16) The best drama prize was won by BBC Radio 3's People Snogging in Public Places.
(17) Beth Jordache (Anna Friel), Brookside (C4) 1993 Bordering on psycho-dyke territory as Beth, witness to and victim of familial sexual abuse, turned to bezzie mate Margaret for a Christmas Eve snog, as you do.
(18) "I got snogged by Kiefer Sutherland, which was a personal triumph and highlight.
(19) But it has also proved controversial, with shows such as Hotter than my Daughter, My Man Boobs and Me, Snog, Marry, Avoid?
(20) Alec Shelbrooke (Con, Elmet and Rothwell) came in at four for me, though this is obviously only a parlour game as theoretical as Snog, Marry, Avoid (and just be glad you aren't even required to contemplate two of those options).