What's the difference between snob and snot?

Snob


Definition:

  • (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”.

Snot


Definition:

  • (n.) Mucus secreted in, or discharged from, the nose.
  • (n.) A mean, insignificant fellow.
  • (v. t.) To blow, wipe, or clear, as the nose.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But really it's because That's What Real Cyclists Do, along with blowing their noses by shooting snot out of a nostril at high speed, and obsessing over their weight.
  • (2) a) synovial bursa ( schleimbeutel ) b) sneeze guard ( Spukschutz ) c) snotty-nosed brat – literally snot spoon ( rotzloeffel ) d) grumpy bastard – literally lump of vomit ( kotzbrocken ) 4,000 Jet-setters complain of a) Jetleg b) Jetleck c) Jetlag d) Jetlack 8,000 Who, if a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, would definitely not call the Joker?
  • (3) Most of the restaurants in China to me smelled dirty, though what I was smelling was likely some unfamiliar ingredient, and I was allowing the things I'd seen earlier in the day – the spitting and snot blowing, etc – to fill in the blanks.
  • (4) The supermarket cashier holds out your change and you take it thinking, "This woman squats and spits on the floor while shitting and blowing snot out of her nose."
  • (5) Over the course of 500 pages he wrestles a swarthy rage he names "the Fury", battens down his cravings, sprays spit and snot and blood and urine, recounts his misdemeanours, finds friendship, and falls in love.
  • (6) At one point, I watched Este and Danielle inspect the insides of Alana's nose, at length, for visible snot.
  • (7) The other members of the Justice League remain superpowered twinkles in the studio's eye (bar The Green Lantern, who's more of an unattractive snot-like stain after the debacle of Martin Campbell's 2011 non-event ).
  • (8) There's no mention of belly button fluff either - but blackheads, snot, puke, pus, scabs, tears, smegma, eyelid crumbs, vaginal discharges, menstrual blood and other gunk are all acceptable fodder, especially when dried to a crust under the fingernails.
  • (9) Her range is immense, from the unguarded ecstasies of first love to the tear-drenched, snot-dribbling grief of loss.
  • (10) From snot-nosed weeping to loving cuddles, there are feelings everywhere, as is the sense this is a safe place to feel them – even as a man.
  • (11) I hate the sin but ah love the sinner," honked the freshly convicted Fiz, face sodden with snot, and with a final grimace of embarrassment John Stape gurgled his last, his newly bearded soul presumably passing through purgatory's rigorous decontamination process before ascending to the Dead Soap Bastard sty in the sky.
  • (12) Then you roll up and you've got to bowl sides out on an absolute snot heap, as slow a pitch as you can get.
  • (13) Last year the Ocean Alliance partnered with tech heads Yuneec to create “snot bots”; drones with petri dishes attached.
  • (14) Great gobs of snot run down Merlin's grey fur, while his tongue flicks in and out of his mouth.
  • (15) One of them often had a threatening trail of snot about to drip on the programme (same price as the peanuts) but he would sniff it up just in time.
  • (16) For research purposes, the drones are flown over water to catch spray and snot from whales when the animals exhale.
  • (17) Also, I fear that Chiellini lacks the speed to contain Suarez, although I am sure he will beat the snot out of him."
  • (18) "We're talking tears, snot … just sobbing in an audience of 30 people."
  • (19) It's their destiny too, but they're way too full of snot and pep to notice.
  • (20) I then spent two hours counselling a woman who snotted on my shoulder about her breakup 10 years ago.