snobとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: snŏb, IPA: /snɒb/
• (General American) enPR: snŏb, IPA: /snɑb/
• 韻: -ɒb

名詞

snob (plural snobs)

1. (informal, derogatory) A person who wishes to be seen as a member of the upper classes and who looks down on those perceived to have inferior or unrefined tastes. [from 20th c.]
   • 1907, E. Nesbit, The Enchanted Castle:

     "How do you do?" said Mabel politely. "No, I'm not from the town. I live at Yalding Towers." The name seemed to impress Mademoiselle very much. Gerald anxiously hoped in his own mind that she was not a snob.

   • 1918, Walter Lionel George, A Novelist on Novels‎:

     Proceed as a snob climbing the social ladder, namely, know the best people in the neighbourhood, then the best people they know. The end is not that of snobbery, but an eternal treasure.

   • 1920 September, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “The Four Fists”, in Flappers and Philosophers, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 249:

     Outside of his own set he was considered rather a snob, but as his set was the set, it never worried him.

   • 1958, Arnold Wesker, Roots:

     If wanting the best things in life means being a snob then glory hallelujah I'm a snob.

2. (colloquial) A cobbler or shoemaker. [from 18th c.]
   • 1929, Frederic Manning, The Middle Parts of Fortune, Vintage, published 2014, page 57:

     The snobs were also kind to him, and gave him a pair of boots which they assured him were of a type and quality reserved entirely for officers […]

3. (dated) A member of the lower classes; a commoner. [from 19th c.]
   • 1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC:

     'D'ye know a slap-up sort of button, when you see it?' said the youth. 'Don't look at mine, if you ain't a judge, because these lions' heads was made for men of taste: not snobs.'

   • 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 31, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:

     I like better gin-and-water than claret. I like a sanded floor in Carnaby Market better than a chalked one in Mayfair. I prefer Snobs, I own it.

   • 1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     I tell you, sir, that I have a brain of my own, and that I should feel myself to be a snob and a slave if I did not use it.

4. (archaic) A workman who works for lower wages than his fellows, especially one who will not join a strike (a scab).
5. (Cambridge University) A townsman, as opposed to a gownsman.

   Synonym: cad

等位語

• posh
• social climber
• nouveau riche

派生語

参考

• hobnob (verb) (a social climber element has often existed with both terms' senses)

参照

Further reading

• snob on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “snob”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “snob”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

アナグラム

• SBNO, bosn, BSON, BNOs, obsn., nobs, BN(O)s, bos'n, bo's'n