\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.